> Are most drives retired without failing? I'd expect so given that HDDs are still having significant density advancements. After a while old drives aren't wor

> Are most drives retired without failing? I'd expect so given that HDDs are still having significant density advancements. After a while old drives aren't worth the power and sled/rack space that could be used for a higher capacity drive. And, yeah, it makes these statistics make more sense together. Edit: plus they are just increasing drive count so most drives haven't hit the time when they would fail or be retired...