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#4336877 - 02/13/17 02:17 PM 80% of Hard Drives Will Survive For 4 Years  
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.....50% of Hard drives will see their 6th year

How Long Do Hard Drives Actually Live For
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/170748-how-long-do-hard-drives-actually-live-for

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#4336966 - 02/13/17 07:03 PM Re: 80% of Hard Drives Will Survive For 4 Years [Re: Haggart]  
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I believe it. I've had one DOA before.
I think it also shows how many cheap hard drives are out there in Dell computers and the like. wink
Not to mention the Seagate firmware fiasco years ago blowing the curve.

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#4336998 - 02/13/17 08:06 PM Re: 80% of Hard Drives Will Survive For 4 Years [Re: Haggart]  
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Did the study include SSD drives? It doesn't look like it.

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#4337050 - 02/13/17 09:33 PM Re: 80% of Hard Drives Will Survive For 4 Years [Re: Haggart]  
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No modern SSDs have been around that long. Only the oldest models and those were already known to have poor life, they were for fast booting the OS, not meant for data retention (hence the prevalence of small boot SSD + large data HD configs years back).



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#4337090 - 02/13/17 10:44 PM Re: 80% of Hard Drives Will Survive For 4 Years [Re: Jedi Master]  
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The INTEL SSD that is running this computer will be 5 years old (installed) this June.

I am fairly sure that it has been "ON" for at least 3 of those years. This computer has been on 24/7 for most of it's life.

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#4337277 - 02/14/17 02:45 PM Re: 80% of Hard Drives Will Survive For 4 Years [Re: Haggart]  
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Other than my SSD 850 Evo, all my HDs are a lot older than that. smile



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