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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 | ||
| 770939 | 2009-05-06 02:46:00 | Speedfan for monitoring temps Measures Uptime too IIRC |
Blam (54) | ||
| 770940 | 2009-05-06 06:40:00 | It's all subjective Mmmm Problematic .... or perhaps random ! - but not subjective Misty |
Misty (368) | ||
| 770941 | 2009-05-06 23:29:00 | But have they done tests on 1.5 Terabyte drives? It said up to 400 gig. The Google report came out long before 1.5TB drives were around. Your 1.5TB drive will probably die before they update the report :D |
autechre (266) | ||
| 770942 | 2009-05-07 02:20:00 | lmgtfy.com 3F | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 770943 | 2009-05-07 08:33:00 | Over 90% of drives will last 100% of their lives. (Something less than 10% will be stolen and cannot contribute to the study.) The oldest drive I have in regular use is in a laptop - it was replaced about 7 years ago under warranty when a faulty DVD drive was being replaced (also under warranty). The owner asked for the old drive back to rescue her university lecture notes, assignments etc. She had no further use for it so it got tossed into my fat laptop and is still busy there. Maybe the workshop was having a quiet patch and needed to drum up a little extra business? In short, disk drives, like people, seem to have variable life spans. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 770944 | 2009-05-07 10:45:00 | Anything used in a server (read SCSI or SAS) will have better reliability and longer life than standard cheap desktop drives However in short there are only 3 types of drives: Drives which haven't failed yet Drives which have failed Drives which were retired before they failed This of course applies to almost anything Very short: Your drive will always fail. Always backup your data. Regularly refresh your backups with new media |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 770945 | 2009-05-07 11:36:00 | It cost my sister and brother in law $A1500 to get all their piccies and business stuff off a failed HDD on their pc. They are real backup fiends now. I managed to get info from work one by dropping HDD on concrete from 40 cm up, it spun up again long enough to save files frantically to a memory stick. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 770946 | 2009-05-08 17:13:00 | I know one HD that is still running since 1998! | Vince (406) | ||
| 770947 | 2009-05-08 19:36:00 | I know one HD that is still running since 1998! dude i have drives from the early 90's that still work, although they are rather small by todays standards (under 1 gig) and havent been running recently but where working fine when i did, although im not sure of there history but they are pretty old none the less. i remember having a mac SE in the early 2k's which had a clunky (stepper motor) 40 megabyte hard disk which still worked, it may have been at least 10 - 18 years old and was still working before i swapped it for a slightly quiter and larger hard drive |
williamF (115) | ||
| 770948 | 2009-05-09 07:42:00 | My old one is still lasting me 8 years and counting. (20gb) its the new ones that seem to be a disaster |
Sir Prospect (14735) | ||
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