It stands to reason that people would think that hard drives are the least reliable component. A bad hdd tends to be very obvious, and for anyone with bad backu

It stands to reason that people would think that hard drives are the least reliable component. A bad hdd tends to be very obvious, and for anyone with bad backup hygiene also memorable. Something like a flaky ram stick just makes the machine crash a little more often. That said, on my desktop I run a raid-1 setup. When a drive fails, I immediately replace the whole pair. Just lost the third one in 6 years this Saturday. And there isn't even any infant mortality distorting the stats.