The drive has been only been powered on and used for read over the last 3+ years. CrystalDiskInfo reports it’s bad but CrystalDiskMark shows decent read/write speeds. Only wrote to it in the very beginning when I dumped a lot of archives into it. Otherwise, very few actual write cycles which is making me think it’s still ok to use. However, this isn’t a NAS drive and is consumer-grade bought many years ago.

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    59 hours of usage with 140 reallocated sectors and a failing read error rate - my guess would be the drive has been dropped or damaged somehow, with such low hours of usage and a failing error rate. This would be an RMA if under warranty. Don’t trust it for anything important.

    Typically I would expect a mechanical WD drive to last for 5 full years of usage - about 44000 hours of run time or more. I’ve had several reach that age with zero or very few errors.

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      There’s a separate Power On Hours up in the information field at the top showing 30020 hours (3.5 years). Maybe CrystalDisk is having trouble interpreting the SMART data.

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      It’s definitely out of warranty by now. Think it was bought around 2018 from Costco. I don’t believe the drive has been dropped but it has been moved several times.