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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Kennyw88 on 2024-03-24 11:14:08.

Over the last several days, I’ve been going through my cold storage stash. I just started my old 10TB WD shucked drives and I’m beginning to wish I had bought more of them when I had the chance. This one was just a cold spare for an old NAS before I filled it up with other data and packed it away.

Right away, it struck me how quiet this drive is. It’s also been syncing with with the original data repository that I copied to it ~4 years ago for the last 5 hours and it’s still just 43C. If this was one of my WD Reds, it would have melted into the dock by now. Not a single one of the original 12 that I bought has failed during their active use up to ~6 months ago. Kudos to WD (slow, but quiet and reliable).