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| Thread ID: 99496 | 2009-05-04 07:19:00 | Hard Drive Lifespan | convair (13650) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 770929 | 2009-05-04 19:23:00 | I have never had one fail in this century, but i usually upgrade to a new one within a few years. But in the 1980s lots used to fail. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 770930 | 2009-05-04 19:30:00 | Overall I have had more SATA drives fail than IDE drives. I still have several IDE drives that still work fine. I only now buy Seagate ES drives which are supposedly better and still have a 5 yr warranty. This box has about 6 HDD's installed at the moment plus a slot to quick swap about 4 IDE drives with other stuff on including a Win7 os drive, plus a Sata Dock. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 770931 | 2009-05-05 04:53:00 | They have been shown more likely to fail in a low freq vibration area (Obviously) Dont put a subwoofer near the PC |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 770932 | 2009-05-05 09:27:00 | I seem to recall a PC World disc of a few years back had a range of sounds which indicated to some extent the level of danger of a hard disc failing. Is that apparently still valid or since disproved ? Misty :confused: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 770933 | 2009-05-05 09:39:00 | Probably software to monitor the SMART status of a drive. I personally use speedfan, but there is a few more. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 770934 | 2009-05-05 23:09:00 | Something spinning at 7000 rpm and made by man WILL fail. Calendar date not really applicable it would be hours based to get a true comparison not that computers have hour meters. I would guess if your hard drive lasted for 5 years you would need to be backing up on a daily basis as you are living on borrowed time. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 770935 | 2009-05-06 00:31:00 | depends if its RUNNING time or STORE time, running it will probably last a few years although a (NEW!!) 465 gig i had failed after about 3 months. and storage would be indefinitely. generally if you leave the drive on, the disk surface and heads wear out less. i've still got 4 gig MAXTOR hard drives that still function to this day, and some less than 1 gig lying around that will only function on a PC IDE bus and not the USB-IDE adaptor | williamF (115) | ||
| 770936 | 2009-05-06 01:11:00 | back in the late 90's I went through 3 harddrives in a couple of years, just kept dying on me. I have a computer I bought in about 2003 sitting at home with the original harddrive in it & had no probs with it ever. It's all subjective | Nictech (14748) | ||
| 770937 | 2009-05-06 01:55:00 | Do hard drives record the hours they are running? How do they know if they have been run over temp? Just wondering |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 770938 | 2009-05-06 02:46:00 | if the drive has SMART it records uptime i believe not sure if they record peak temperature or not |
williamF (115) | ||
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