I have been an IT consultant and technician for over 35 years and have seen all sorts of hard drive failures

Lost all my data (catastrophic failure) .

At first, you might not notice it, as the drive and OS can tolerate small failures, but over time it will eventually die.

It wasn’t catastrophic failure or anything, but something was clearly wrong

The only problem is that there isn't a .vic file name that starts with 29582.Since the drive is reporting 582ABBF0 as its firmware number, I'm not too worried as that seems to match the firmware number in all of those files, and that's the most recent, and the only, f/w available today

I've never had problems before with other brands (except PNY, who made us call, and were rude, but they did issue an

A cold boot is as fast as if the PC was put on hibernate

Although it is not as fast as

I have built, along with two Western Digital 3tb Green Drives and an old 2tb Hitachi Deskstar I've had since high school, which surprisingly still works as if I had just bought it

My only suggestion is to get as much memory as you can afford