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| 770919 | 2009-05-04 07:19:00 | What's the lifespan of a computer hard drive? | convair (13650) | ||
| 770920 | 2009-05-04 07:21:00 | No set time. Anything from 5 minutes if your lucky through to 20 years if your real lucky Warranties vary from 1 year to 5 years, probably take that as a guideline |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 770921 | 2009-05-04 08:31:00 | if i remember correctly..... 50% die in first 6 years. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 770922 | 2009-05-04 08:47:00 | ive had some die within a month, some within a year, have some that are over 5 years old and still fine | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 770923 | 2009-05-04 08:55:00 | No set time. Anything from 5 minutes if your lucky through to 20 years if your real lucky Warranties vary from 1 year to 5 years, probably take that as a guideline Yep, generally drives fail at around 4/5 years. Although it does vary, dependign on how you treat the drives, what you do with them etc |
Blam (54) | ||
| 770924 | 2009-05-04 11:39:00 | Yep, generally drives fail at around 4/5 years. Although it does vary, dependign on how you treat the drives, what you do with them etc There is no set figure. I have 10 Megabyte drive that still powers up. That is Megabyte rather than Gigabyte. You can get one that is dead on arrival as recently posted like a seagate 1 terabyte drive. Please inform where your figures come from. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 770925 | 2009-05-04 11:40:00 | There is no set figure. I have 10 Megabyte drive that still powers up. That is Megabyte rather than Gigabyte. You can get one that is dead on arrival as recently posted like a seagate 1 terabyte drive. Please inform where your figures come from. I did say generally if you didn't notice. I was making a generalisation. I've bough a few drives and my dad has too, about 10 all in all, 8 of them lasted around 4-5yrs. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 770926 | 2009-05-04 12:16:00 | Google done some extensive testing @ labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf They use consumer hard drives for their servers and this test used 100,000 drives. Snapshot Young drives (less than 2 years) prefer it hot (above 35C), whilst older drives like it mild. Get rid after the first scan error (39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than if none). Get rid after the first sector reallocation (14 times more likely to fail within 60 days than if none) (21 times for offline reallocations). Get rid after the first sector Probational Count (16 times more likely to fail within 60 days than if none). More than 56% of failed drives do not have either SMART-reported scan errors, sector reallocations, offline reallocations nor sector Probational Counts. More than 72% of all drives report seek errors. 36% of failed drives have no error signals of any kind. The report said that there was a clear trend showing "that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates". "Only at very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend." But hard drives which are three years old and older were more likely to suffer a failure when used in warmer environments. source:news.bbc.co.uk |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 770927 | 2009-05-04 12:25:00 | I did say generally if you didn't notice. I was making a generalisation. I've bough a few drives and my dad has too, about 10 all in all, 8 of them lasted around 4-5yrs. Yep. I did see generally. But a general statement means very little unless backed up by facts. If you bough the drive does this mean the drives fell out of a tree or fell into a tree. I like the word about. Is that approximately or what? Around 4 - 5 yrs is your figure. So now list all Hard drives which were bought and when and by who. I now assume that two drives still survive then or what? How many drives did you buy and what make and model? How many drives did your dad buy and what make and model? Generalise as you please but this does not answer the OPs post in my opinion. Any hardware will live until it dies. Most hardware will die eventually. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 770928 | 2009-05-04 12:32:00 | Google done some extensive testing @ labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf They use consumer hard drives for their servers and this test used 100,000 drives. Snapshot Young drives (less than 2 years) prefer it hot (above 35C), whilst older drives like it mild. Get rid after the first scan error (39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than if none). Get rid after the first sector reallocation (14 times more likely to fail within 60 days than if none) (21 times for offline reallocations). Get rid after the first sector Probational Count (16 times more likely to fail within 60 days than if none). More than 56% of failed drives do not have either SMART-reported scan errors, sector reallocations, offline reallocations nor sector Probational Counts. More than 72% of all drives report seek errors. 36% of failed drives have no error signals of any kind. source:news.bbc.co.uk But have they done tests on 1.5 Terabyte drives? It said up to 400 gig. |
Sweep (90) | ||
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