I work at Intel, and am involved with the "Reliability Verification" team for some of our client products. We design our chips to last 7 years when run well ov

I work at Intel, and am involved with the "Reliability Verification" team for some of our client products. We design our chips to last 7 years when run well over the specced frequency on "viruses" that are much harder on the hardware than any realistic workload. Server teams have even stricter requirements. If any hardware is going to see increased failure, I'm guessing it's the hard drives.