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| Thread ID: 135528 | 2013-11-13 18:23:00 | Analysis: Failure rates of hard drives | Strommer (42) | Press F1 |
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| 1359760 | 2013-11-13 18:23:00 | Article here (motherboard.vice.com): How Long Can You Reasonably Expect Your Hard Drive To Last? *Mechanical HD's. *Read also the comments below the article (click twice to read the entire Comments section); the last comment has links to two academic papers on HD failure rates. Apparently SSD's can fail also, according to one of the comments. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 1359761 | 2013-11-13 18:47:00 | Yep, HDD's can and do fail at ANY time. SSD's are no different, ANY storage device/ Media will fail one day its just a matter of when. It could be a week old or 10+ years old, but one day it WILL fail. That's why you have backups. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1359762 | 2013-11-13 20:11:00 | "According to Backblaze, about one in 20 hard drives fails in the first 18 months" Really, I find that hard to believe, we would have been getting ALOT more failed drives returned from PC's & HD's we sold if that was true. Google released an analysis a while back, they use more HD's than anyone. Their results did however show the manufacturers MTBF was BS. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1359763 | 2013-11-14 01:29:00 | Had 2 brand new seagates DOA out of 3 just last week!.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1359764 | 2013-11-14 02:50:00 | 2 WD Blacks replaced in a few months. Don't remember the reason but some photographer's said they don't trust SSDs for photographs long term archving and said they preferred mechanical ones.... | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1359765 | 2013-11-14 04:00:00 | Had a bad run with WD Blacks quite a while back, out of 5 drives, 4 failed within a month of being installed :( | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1359766 | 2013-11-14 06:26:00 | Over the years...some brands had massive failure rates, others not too bad. But hard drive failure is common, it's an electromechanical device so not too surprising. SSDs? Yep, bu their nature, of course. Hard drives and power supplys are what I have seen the most with PCs. That's why techs bang on about backups so much. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1359767 | 2013-11-14 09:07:00 | Maxtor. :( Enuf said. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1359768 | 2013-11-14 22:33:00 | And then there are the millions of people who have supreme faith entrusting their precious data/photos to the gods of chance! | linw (53) | ||
| 1359769 | 2013-11-15 02:31:00 | HDD failures are definitely the most common problem we've seen in the workshop lately. Often the customer doesn't even know the HDD is failing but we always run HDD tests now, before we do anything else, on every machine that comes in. No point spending time trying to fix an issue when it could be caused by a failing HDD. :D |
CYaBro (73) | ||
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