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Seatbelts too. And airbags. Afaik you're supposed to replace those every 10 years or so. Most people of course don't. Another good one most people forget: Har
by Swizec 7y ago
Seatbelts too. And airbags.
Afaik you're supposed to replace those every 10 years or so. Most people of course don't.
Another good one most people forget: Hard drives last about 5 years. CD-Rs are rated for 10 years. A flash drive can go for 10 years. SSD holds data for about 2 years.
The electronics themselves in many modern consumer devices are basically kaput after 4 to 5 years.
Point is you are likely overestimating the lifespan of your devices even without taking software into account.
- JohnFen 7y ago> Hard drives last about 5 years. I've often heard this, but I regularly use hard drives for much longer than that. I've only ever had one fail.
- winternett 7y agoSSDs now though may likely change that. If they fail early, they were likely manufactured to do so, or there was some other issue like power surges.
- JohnFen 7y agoTrue, but I'm not yet comfortable with using SSDs for anything of importance.
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- tluyben2 7y agoHard drives 5 years; yeah it happens but then usually fast after active use: if they do not fail fast then they usually keep going. I have 100s of HD's here from 25 to a few years ago and most of them work fine. Especially the 90s/00s then-expensive scsi discs do not seem to fail. But cheap internal and external HD's from that time are also still all working. If they get beyond 5 years (and by far most do), they get to 20. Anecdotal ofcourse.
- winternett 7y agoDon't worry, all the other peripherals will lose driver support, and your processor will crack long before 5 years anyway... Hah.
- tluyben2 7y agoNew stuff will; (unix) workstations and servers from 20-25 years ago are running fine inc all hds.