I think it will, in part, depend on how software handles it. I’m guessing quite a few people just look at the health summary in software like Crystal Disk Info. If this makes the summary go from green to yellow, it’s going to fool a lot of people.

People who actually look at the individual stats and warnings will probably just shrug it off. Hell, I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten used drives that had over 3 years logged before I even put them in service, and that didn’t bother me.

In the grand scheme of things this isn’t a big deal. If you’re not using some kind of RAID parity system I guess I wouldn’t mind the notification. I think it is probably overkill, though. Just seems like they want everyone that’s had a hard drive for three years to buy a new one. The fact that some drives that are still under warranty show the warning is sketchy.