How old is my hard drive

Most of the drives have manufacturing date on the device.

I was hoping SMART had that kind of data but you could see things like 'power on hours' to give you a decent guess of the actual usage time as well.

Usually you can pop out a drive without 'tearing the computer apart'. It's a pretty quick removal to check.
 
Here's usually where they're located (pardon the crappy Nexus 7 photo quality :P)

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Yes that's WD Cavlar Black and I have blue so I'll be buying the Black from now on. Black is the best then green and Blue is the cheapest.
 
lostsoul62 said:
Yes that's WD Cavlar Black and I have blue so I'll be buying the Black from now on. Black is the best then green and Blue is the cheapest.
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You might want to revise that ordering. The EZEX drives also perform about the same as the 1 TB Blacks.
 
The EZEX drives are the Blue drives. The green drives run at a slower speed.

1. Black
2. Blue
3. Green
 
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