I have 7 shucked WD Mybook 10TB white drives running in my unraid, the oldest oldest 4 of them are just over two years old now and running just fine, and the newest one have been running for about 6 months.

 

How long have you had yours running, and how long do you think one can expect them to last?

~17 WD shuck disk ( all WD from shuck ), the age one ~4yrs.

Only 1 ( non Helium ) got bad sector.

Edited October 29, 20214 yr by Vr2Io

Ok, that sounds promising, thanks!

I think I have 4+ shucked drives, all of them running for multiple years. No issues on my end. Most are either WD Red, or the white labeled ones that are basically Red drives.
I don't think shucked drives change the lifetime, for that you may want to look at the backblaze report on their failure rates. Some are just more prone that others (apparently WD were higher than average) but keep in mind they use those in datacenters so usage is more intense. Personally, for the price I am ok with the slightly higher risk and havent had any issues.

I still have the same 7 chucked WD Mybook 10TB white drives running, and the four oldest ones are now a bit more than 7 years old, and I've had no issues with a sigle one of them.

Here is the parity drive which is one of the first four I installed.

I've been looking for a while for additional drives, but they are so expensinve nowadays. Maybe I have to start deleting suff...