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When Will Your Hard Drive Fail?

Posted by timothy on from the worst-possible-moment dept.

jfruh writes: Tech writer Andy Patrizio suffered his most catastrophic hard drive failure in 25 years of computing recently, which prompted him to delve into the questions of which hard drives fail and when. One intriguing theory behind some failure rates involve a crisis in the industry that arose from the massive 2011 floods in Thailand, home to the global hard drive industry.

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  1. Very old news by cb88 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is months old and probably one of the first things to come up when you do a google search on hard drive failure statistics. Also the blog linked to is not the original story.

    This is where the actual data comes from... https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

  2. Re:Wrong question. by dugancent · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dropbox lets you retrieve previous versions for up to 30 days.

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