HDDs Typically Failed in Under 3 Years in Backblaze Study of 17,155 Failed Drives

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By msmashMay 4, 2023, 4:41 pm133 pts
An anonymous reader shares a report: We recently covered a study by Secure Data Recovery, an HDD, SSD, and RAID data recovery company, of 2,007 defective hard disk drives it received. It found the average time before failure among those drives to be 2 years and 10 months. That seemed like a short life span, but…

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