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> Any drive can fail at any time for any reason and it may be totally unrecoverable. While in principle this is true, I have been using hard drives for more th

by pdonis 4y ago

> Any drive can fail at any time for any reason and it may be totally unrecoverable. While in principle this is true, I have been using hard drives for more than 30 years now in PCs and I have never had one fail. I still back things up to separate drives since there's always a first time, but I've never used SpinRite or any other extra "protection" over and above what my OS provided.

svc0 4y ago
There are stats on failure rates and bathtub curves. Consumer hard drives these days have an AFT of ~1.41%. Never used SpinRite and I don't know if there is evidence for it but I suggest you backup your data. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2022/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...