New research shows that the typical hard drive may actually need to be replaced a lot sooner than many other components in your PC.
If you’ve ever had a hard disk drive fail on you, you’re certainly not alone. It turns out that this is actually a lot more common than most people think.
Cloud storage and backup company Backblaze released an interesting report about the average time it takes for an HDD to fail. Backblaze examined a total of 17,155 HDDs of varying sizes and models. Based on that sample, it came to the conclusion that an HDD only functions for around two-and-a-half years on average.
If the company only considered drives it no longer uses in its data centers, the sample would have been much smaller — 3,379 drives spanning 35 models. The average age would also be negligibly higher, reaching 2 years and 7 months. In addition to exposing the short average life span of an HDD, the study also finds that Seagate drives are the most susceptible to failure, while WDC models saw the least casualties.
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