I was on slickdeals the other day where there was a lengthy discussion about how this drive could fail due to having 5 platters and therefore produced more heat and was “supposedly” more likely to fail.

Should you be worried about it? Basically yes and no. I have had a few drives fail on me in the past, all of different brands. Some hard drives are more likely to fail than others, depending on the build quality, but basically any drive can fail at any time. Usually even if you weren’t keeping great backups of all your info you still should be able to recover most of it, but maybe not. All my drives that failed had to do with corruption. I lost no data really.

That particular drive (The 2TB Hitachi) I did purchase because I need to replace a corrupt drive. I leave my computer on almost 24/7. I have some fairly heavy hardware though and I haven’t had an issue. Some Dell computers might not be able to put up with it, since they can barely withstand running something like Prime95.

If you’re really worried about your data then you should get server class hard drives and make backups regularly. Desktop grade drives just aren’t built to last as much.

Don’t worry about drive failure too much, if it happens it happens, deal with it then

SideNote: I’ll probably never be able to fill that 2TB drive but I’ll try