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Correct me, but maybe the hard disk drives from that era are more reliable because of the low bit density ? And also survivor bias.
by olabyne 4y ago
Correct me, but maybe the hard disk drives from that era are more reliable because of the low bit density ?
And also survivor bias.
- zigzag312 4y agoIt depends more on manufacturer/series/batch. In my experience good HDDs easily last 10+ years.
- fshr 4y agoThat guy was claiming 34 years of use. The disks would be incredibly low capacity compared to today.
- recycledmatt 4y agoYou also tend to see a higher rate of failure in the first few years which then drops off over time
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoi have two NAS 3TB WD Red drives that are about 10 years old and still going stong
- shakow 4y agoIt would be survivor bias if I ignored the failing disks. However, all of these are from machines which are in my family from the beginning. I don't have a precise tracking of all the HDDs we ever had, but I remember maybe 4-5 of out of maybe 20 failing over the course of ~30yrs, which is not incredibly awesome, but far from ‶unheard of″.
- eric__cartman 4y agoI have multiple consumer grade drives made in 2008-2010 that have been used a lot and have more than 7 years of recorded time of the head flying over the platters and they still work fine. Some with zero reallocated sectors and others with 1-10 in the last decade. But the number hasn't changed for 3+ years in any drive so it doesn't bother me. Before you say it, of course I keep backups of everything. That's why I still use decade old hardware without much worry.