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This is *not* hard drive "voodoo" Kirk!
Authored by: styrafome on Nov 04, '06 02:21:34AM

It isn't easy to say how long hard drives last, but hard drives are rated with Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), in hours. For example, 200,000 hours. The number's an average (Mean), so MTBF is like 5 years then there can be many drives on the long end and equally many at the short end. Like many here, I've had both. Drives that have lasted disappointingly few months, others that have lasted a surprising number of years. From the same manufacturer. You can't expect much else from a device that has to spin so fast for so long, and under stressful conditions of heat, shock, and frequent starting/stopping if in a notebook.

And that's why recent, frequent, redundant backups are always important.



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