Is this WD MyBook 6tb drive still good?
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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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I do the same! Failing drives are nice for storing games. They tend to still last for longer than we expect