SS319 wrote:
And, at the end of the day, please buy a second 3TB drive or invest in cloud storage. The known life of any hard drive ever invented is from 30 seconds to 30 years with the probability of failure during any given interval of time being equal to the probability of failure at any other given interval of time.
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I have read that for some reason the MTBF of 3 TB HD's are lower than other capacity drives - more problems - and that it is not dependent on Brand. Don't know if it is an inherent design problem or something else.