I can actually count mine - had a 13.6GB Quantum Fireball die after a couple of years, a rubbish cheap Patriot SSD that was basically a bunch of fail from the start anyhow and the consumer grade HDD (think it was a generic Toshiba) I tried to use in a server application (IRCd logging/filtering bot on a busy network) which literally had a meltdown after being hammered 24x7 for some months. Most of my drives have outlived their usefulness.
I still got my first 3.5 inch hard drive Seagate 250MB inside my Amiga A1200 still stored in my loft.
My first VTech PC had 500MB Seagate hard drive and 1 year later I build my first PC with 1GB Seagate hard drive then upgraded hard drives every few years. Gave away 3 Seagate, Maxtor and WD hard drives to my sister when her first PC hard drive failed and cannot afforded a new or 2nd hand hard drive so all 3 of my old hard drives been failed that included the last drive which was my first SATA 250GB WD drive WD2500KS. I build a PC in 2001 for my uncle, after experienced so many hard drives failures from Seagate, Maxtor and WD so I was read reviews on internet, tech reviewers were impressed with IBM Deskstar 75GXP so I decided to ordered 45GB model but it failed after few years and I gave away my old WD drive to my uncle but few years later my old WD drive failed and my uncle had enough and decided to bought Medion laptop and returned desktop PC to me.
I can remember transfer rates of all of my hard drives since 1995...
IDE 8MB
EIDE 16MB
UDMA 33MB
UDMA 66MB
UDMA 100MB
UDMA 133MB
SATA 150MB
SATA2 300MB
SATA3 600MB
NVME PCIE3 3500MB
NVME PCIE4 7300MB
2 weeks ago i noticed lots of errors in Event Viewer's System occured every few days:
The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.
Then I was concerned and investigated deeply found a critical warning on 5 Dec and then found the first critical warning on 21 Sept:
Windows Disk Diagnostic detected a S.M.A.R.T. fault on disk WDC WD40E31X-00HY4A0 (volumes D:\;F:\). This disk might fail; back up your computer now. All data on the hard disk, including files, documents, pictures, programs, and settings might be lost if your hard disk fails. To determine if the hard disk needs to be repaired or replaced, contact the manufacturer of your computer. If you can't back up (for example, you have no CDs or other backup media), you should shut down your computer and restart when you have backup media available. In the meantime, do not save any critical files to this disk.
Oh dear that is my WD Blue 4TB SSHD bought in 2015 took 7 years to reached SMART failure but strange CrystalDiskInfo confirmed that drive is in good health with all blue lights, odd there are no red or yellow lights on Reallocated Sectors Count, Current Pending Sector Count and Uncorrectable Sector Count. I now remembered on 21 Sept after booted PC saw a SMART warning message on D: F: then pressed F1 to continue and logged in desktop saw SMART hard drive failure warning notification and ran CrystalDiskInfo and it confirmed WDC WD40E31X-00HY4A0 is in good health and tried opened File Explorer to checked download folder, transfer folders, ran game, ran CrystalDiskMark benchmark fine and defrag successfully. Then I dismissed SMART warning as false positive.
I tried to defrag D: and F: but it took forever then I cancelled it and opened Terminal ran chkdsk /f /r on D: and F: after 6 hours later on each partitions it found errors in file system and successfully repaired. The drive seemed fine after played a game from D: and downloaded many files to D:. After that I tried ran defrag on D: and it was worked able to completed in 10 mins. Then I googled found a way to confirm SMART status of hard drives.
WMIC Diskdrive finally confirmed my 4TB WD SSHD will fail soon, so I will need a new 4TB drive, lucky I found WD BLACK 4TB PCIE4 SSD SN850X at bargain price and ordered now plus I will get 5% cashback.
I will use Macrium Reflect to disk clone 4TB WD SSHD to WD BLACK 4TB PCIE4 SSD and retire 4TB WD SSHD as file storage offline.
I suspected it could be either City Sample Unreal Engine 5 tech demo and BulkLoadDemo directstorage demo hammered my poor 4TB SSHD for sometime. Hopefully WD 4TB SN850X SSD will have directstorage firmware.
