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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    2 days ago

    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.