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- timemachine 5y agoMemories. Thanks for the post.
- markus_zhang 5y agoWhat's the price of the ST hard disk? Can we consumer grade hard disk with the same reliability nowadays?
- toast0 5y agoWell, one report of a disk lasting 35 years does not show how reliable the product was. :) Anyway, the hard part is if you want to buy something that lasts 35 years, you really have to wait 35 years to see what you should have bought, and then it's too late. It's the same problem with cars. You have to predict based on past experience and most recent observations and hope.
- markus_zhang 5y agoMakes sense. I read a few more other articles on his blog and some comments did mention a failure of the disk after a very short period of time, but likely due to a chip error not a disk failure.
- justshowpost 5y agoIt highly depends on how many time the drive was powered on, how many spin-ups it had, etc. The shelf life of HDD is virtually unlimited.
- markus_zhang 5y agoThanks, makes sense. I think for SSD it's the number of writes right?
- toast0 5y agoSSDs can (and do) fail before their write endurance levels. IMHO, it's probably firmware bugs, but it's hard to tell what happened when the SSD is in a datacenter and it just disappears off the data bus. Could easily be component failure, poor assembly leading to solder failure, tin whiskers, etc.