NO! Not again! My internal HD is FAILING

[Black]

Is it possible the replacement program is still in effect?

To answer your question, you can put any 3.5" SATA drive in there, as big as you like.

[freeradical]

That is a lot of hours on the drive. What utility is reporting that number?

In the energy saver preferences, you can make it so the drive powers down...

[Jerry®]

freeradical wrote:
That is a lot of hours on the drive. What utility is reporting that number?

In the energy saver preferences, you can make it so the drive powers down...

SMART Utility. Yes it powers down in sleep.

[Jerry®]

Black wrote:
Is it possible the replacement program is still in effect?

To answer your question, you can put any 3.5" SATA drive in there, as big as you like.

I couldn’t find the replacement program on Apple's website....

[MrNoBody]

Apple's Seagate HDD replacement program ended, that's why you won't find it. https://www.apple.com/support/exchange_repair/

I have two of the ST31000's in my NAS, four years old. I'll be replacing them with
2TB Toshiba DT01ACA200's this weekend. I've been running a DT01ACA200 in my
"always on" hackpro tower* as the data drive for 2+ years. [*well ventilated]

Ironically, I also have a 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 in there used as a media drive.
However, the boot drives are all 240/256 Sata-3 SSDs.

Been lucky not to have a HDD failure in several years; last was a Samsung Spinpoint.

[ka jowct]

If you got 3-4 years out of it, In a hot, poorly ventilated enclosure, which is what pretty much any aluminum iMac is, it's not that surprising that it bit the dust. It doesn't surprise me that Apple sticks slower, cooler-running drives in their sleek, sealed enclosures. More effective ventilation and fewer style points might be a good idea, but they have not been inclined to go in that direction.

I have started using a CoolerMaster NotePal X-Slim under my 15" MBP. It makes a difference in how hot it runs.

[davester]

The MTBF for that drive is 750000 hours at 2400 hrs/year operation, with MTBF noted to be lower for high heat environments. You've been running about triple the expected operation time, which would bring MTBF down to 250000 hours, so you're at about 10% of the MTBF. Throw in a significant heat factor and you'd probably be at one end of the range of statistical failure frequencies. Bad luck, but not that unusual. It seems that my family has one drive fail about every 3 years. On my ReplayTVs, which had drives that ran constantly the failure rate was much higher.

[decay]

just checked my 2TB... 20,780 hours.

Western Digital WD20EARX
http://www.storagereview.com/western_dig...w_wd20ears