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I have had a dozen hard drives and nearly half of them failed within 5 years. I would not consider hard drives safe for a decade of use. SSDs are likely much

I have had a dozen hard drives and nearly half of them failed within 5 years. I would not consider hard drives safe for a decade of use. SSDs are likely much better.

mistrial9 3y ago
opposite experience here.. set the sleep to a reasonable value, keep the temperatures and power stable, and the better quality spinning disks (7200rpm) are great. I have had three SSDs fail without warning in the same time period, supposedly better quality SSDs.
- xhkkffbf 3y ago
  Me too. Flash is a great technology, but it tends to forget things, especially if there's no power applied to it.
  - willis936 3y ago
    That's fine, but online MTBF is much shorter for hard drives than flash. If you don't use your computers then hard drives make for better cold storage.
hulitu 3y ago
I have drives from 2008 and 2011 which are still going fine.(WD black, and Samsung)