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Western Digital WD5000LPVX 500 GB failure rate and reliability

D Grade D: Below average

Backblaze logged 326 drive-years on the Western Digital WD5000LPVX from Q1 2023 to Q3 2026, with 37 in service at the end of that period. In that time 11 drives failed, an annualised failure rate of 3.37%.

That is 122% higher than the 1.52% average across every drive in the same data, which earns it grade D (below average).

Among the 5 graded 500 GB hard drives it ranks 1 of 5 for reliability.

Failures have fallen: 1.15% over the latest 8 quarters against 4.18% before.

Failure rate / year

3.37%

Average, all drives

1.52%

Drives in use

37

Drive-years

326

Failures

11

Capacity

500 GB

Type

HDD

Model number

WD5000LPVX

Failure rate by quarter

Single quarters with few drive-days swing widely; the overall figure above is the dependable one.

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