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If I'm counting correctly I've had 11 drives, and each was used on average 3-5 years I think. I've helped a lot of other people with their computers being the n
by jules 15y ago
If I'm counting correctly I've had 11 drives, and each was used on average 3-5 years I think. I've helped a lot of other people with their computers being the nerd kid, and the problem has not been a failed drive yet (and it has been other failed hardware, like RAM and video cards and sound cards).
If you've had about 20 drives fail, and of 15 Dell laptops a lot of drives failed, some repeatedly, don't you think that your bad experience was primarily caused by that type of drive?
- rm445 15y agoHard drive failure is probabalistic. You're just one data point. There are plenty of people who have seen a moderate number of drive failures, and some people who have so many drives fail that you have to check that they aren't tapping them with a magnet for good luck or something. Not believing in hard drive failure because you haven't had any, despite the rest of the word telling you it's a fact of life... well, it says something interesting about human psychology, is all.
- jules 15y agoSure I believe in hard drive failures. I'm not saying that hard drives don't fail, I'm just providing my experience with hard drive failure. Where did you get the idea that I don't believe in hard drive failure? I realize that I'm just one data point. What I don't get is why people downvote me for providing this data point, whereas people don't seem to have a problem with blanket statements like "HDDs do fail, too. A lot." that provide zero data points. Moreover we are talking about SSDs vs HDDs here. "HDDs do fail, too. A lot." may be true, but if according to Jeff Atwood, a SSD proponent, on the order of half of SSDs fail in the first year then HDDs may fail a lot, but SSDs fail a whole lot more.