I had for three years, but it began developing bad sectors, indicating old age and possible imminent failure

but I always ended up with the horror of bad sectors early on with their hard

I checked the windows logs afterward and found no real record of any issues prior to that boot-up, but now the logs were just filling up with bad sector reports

Scanning again found more bad sectors.

This also happened with 2 other 300GB hard drives that my partner had (purchased separately, months earlier), BOTH of them also had bad sectors and had to be returned

I scanned the drive, found bad sectors and thought that fixed it, but no, the problems persisted.

Out of 15 returned drives 8 have failed a second time and some even a third from bad sectors on the disk surface.

Formatting the drive is not possible due to the massive number of bad sectors.

I let it go, and it started reporting bad sectors.

I do check my drives on a weekly basis for bad sectors etc and have never had any problems on this drive.

it comes un-formatted so expect to wait a while to do a full format to make sure there were no bad sectors from the start took around 10 hours!

this is probably the fastest mechanical drive I've used in a long time!200MB/s which is way faster than the typical 120MB/s and even faster

But the 1T filled up quickly, and SSD drives HATE to have little or no room left on them -- they get revenge in really horrible, unpredictable ways

What's not to love about a Seagate hard drive and 6T.

I love Seagate drives and I love seeing 5.5T available in one internal mount point on a home computer.

so it doesn't continue to blue screen and return I/O errors.