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One of my main questions is how different these stats are for hard drives that are not running all the time. Personal experience over a decade in an underfunded
by ramraj07 6y ago
One of my main questions is how different these stats are for hard drives that are not running all the time. Personal experience over a decade in an underfunded lab was that if you took a drive offline and left it for couple years, you had 10-40% chance of it failing.
- leetcrew 6y agoI had a couple drives that no longer worked after leaving the computer dormant for a few months. most of my drive failures have occurred immediately after hardware upgrades though. seems like I lose at least one drive every time I replace a mobo. I'm always surprised that breaks them, but they always survived trips to/from college in the trunk of my car.
- londons_explore 6y agoI'd give those drives a reformat... Some motherboards have firmware that does odd things to drives, like hiding the first or last sectors to store its own data or for various OEM recovery techniques. That can make your data look corrupt. Yet reformatting (or just putting the drive in with the old motherboard) will magically fix them.