Haha yeah I made a friend who’s had one ghetto ass 3.5″ as a main windoze drive idling for 15yr and everything seems good despite literally being journaled to many new homes.
NvME getting so damn competitive though especially for the home user and no need to have 8TiB of music and TV reay either.
Valoneria
Average being the key takeaway here.
Lots of consumer harddrives dies. At least we’re getting past harddrives in Laptops.
Emotional-Way3132
I have a WD blue 1tb from 2012 and it only gone bad last month
use it for 8-12 hours a day btw(hours when my PC is on)
unsurp4ssed
bullshit. Mine still works fine since 2007.
throwaway_uow
My 2004 hard drive didn’t get the memo
MaXedHeiM
Got mine since 2014. It makes a lot of noise now but it works
Plaston_
say that to my pc G4!
AudioVid3o
How come the 10.1 gb hard drive made on September 18, 2000, that I found in my parents junk room, covered in metal shavings and dust, still boots, reads and writes then?
Titanium_Eye
Yeah, with heavy usage. I found a 60GB in an old 90’s PC that still works. Had to do a double bypass of various cable adapters to check it, though.
Legitimate-Skill-112
no way thats true
phaleur01
Me using 10yold used drives cus they are cheaper:
RK_NightSky
My external HDD getting tormented for the 10th year
Kingofthewar
’09,’07 and ’11 up and running
MisterD0ll
Kinda feel like the massive ammount of drives in server farms makes this average meaningless for consumers. My NAS shuts down at 2 am and the drives are idle unless I watch something or download something
getmendoza99
3 years? What are you doing to your drives
Kpalsm
I’ve never lost a hard drive. I have one still running with 36,000 power cycles, nearly 75,000 power on hours, 0 bad sectors
Emotional-Way3132
More like SSDs die only in 2-3 years especially the DRAM less SSDs
nv87
It’s called the bathtub curve. They most likely break relatively early or really late which on average means the time they take to break down is an amount of time they very rarely take to break.
Emotional-Way3132
OP you either have a shitty and noisy electricity or you always drop your HDD
IcyCartographer3461
This is just not true
Yanninbo
Me lookin at my +10yo HDD’s still chugging along
Kichmad
My western digital 1tb caviar black working since 2012 would disagree with you
I’ve got 72 SAS drives in this picture and I’m going to slowly tell them 1 by 1, that they should have all died along time ago.
Dreathery
My hdd from 2002 is sill working.
Hammerface2k
Where the fuck this data come from is a mistery. I’m still running hard drives from the 200x.
bott-Farmer
My hard drive that i jave had for 14 years:
they dont know ibeen working for so long
Thunderous71
Well could be true if your buying from Temu or Wish.
CrystallCake
Server HDD from 2010 here with basically 100% running no Hibernation: “it’s a lie”
PowerSilly5143
Bullshit
Turbopasta
If this is true, I’m pretty sure the hard drives that die early, premature deaths are dragging down the survival rates of currently working hard drives, making all of them look less reliable than they actually are, on average.
Fun fact! This is actually the same for humans too. Many people think the average lifespan used to be very short, when in reality it’s always been roughly the same; humans just got better at not dying at very young ages.
Witchberry31
I have three 3.5″ hdds from 2011, two 2.5″ from 2014, and three 2.5″ + one 3.5″ from 2018. All still working just fine.
I have a shitton of hard drives, out of my 15+ years of messing with computers, I only have 4 failed hdds. And **all** of them are Seagate 2.5″ drives. 💀
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Haha yeah I made a friend who’s had one ghetto ass 3.5″ as a main windoze drive idling for 15yr and everything seems good despite literally being journaled to many new homes.
NvME getting so damn competitive though especially for the home user and no need to have 8TiB of music and TV reay either.
Average being the key takeaway here.
Lots of consumer harddrives dies. At least we’re getting past harddrives in Laptops.
I have a WD blue 1tb from 2012 and it only gone bad last month
use it for 8-12 hours a day btw(hours when my PC is on)
bullshit. Mine still works fine since 2007.
My 2004 hard drive didn’t get the memo
Got mine since 2014. It makes a lot of noise now but it works
say that to my pc G4!
How come the 10.1 gb hard drive made on September 18, 2000, that I found in my parents junk room, covered in metal shavings and dust, still boots, reads and writes then?
Yeah, with heavy usage. I found a 60GB in an old 90’s PC that still works. Had to do a double bypass of various cable adapters to check it, though.
no way thats true
Me using 10yold used drives cus they are cheaper:
My external HDD getting tormented for the 10th year
’09,’07 and ’11 up and running
Kinda feel like the massive ammount of drives in server farms makes this average meaningless for consumers. My NAS shuts down at 2 am and the drives are idle unless I watch something or download something
3 years? What are you doing to your drives
I’ve never lost a hard drive. I have one still running with 36,000 power cycles, nearly 75,000 power on hours, 0 bad sectors
More like SSDs die only in 2-3 years especially the DRAM less SSDs
It’s called the bathtub curve. They most likely break relatively early or really late which on average means the time they take to break down is an amount of time they very rarely take to break.
OP you either have a shitty and noisy electricity or you always drop your HDD
This is just not true
Me lookin at my +10yo HDD’s still chugging along
My western digital 1tb caviar black working since 2012 would disagree with you
https://preview.redd.it/w72vtva017wc1.png?width=1318&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9f36e3f4bcd6c37b21f6200779b05c2a72577db
I’ve got 72 SAS drives in this picture and I’m going to slowly tell them 1 by 1, that they should have all died along time ago.
My hdd from 2002 is sill working.
Where the fuck this data come from is a mistery. I’m still running hard drives from the 200x.
My hard drive that i jave had for 14 years:
they dont know ibeen working for so long
Well could be true if your buying from Temu or Wish.
Server HDD from 2010 here with basically 100% running no Hibernation: “it’s a lie”
Bullshit
If this is true, I’m pretty sure the hard drives that die early, premature deaths are dragging down the survival rates of currently working hard drives, making all of them look less reliable than they actually are, on average.
Fun fact! This is actually the same for humans too. Many people think the average lifespan used to be very short, when in reality it’s always been roughly the same; humans just got better at not dying at very young ages.
I have three 3.5″ hdds from 2011, two 2.5″ from 2014, and three 2.5″ + one 3.5″ from 2018. All still working just fine.
I have a shitton of hard drives, out of my 15+ years of messing with computers, I only have 4 failed hdds. And **all** of them are Seagate 2.5″ drives. 💀
Bullshit. Got one since 2009 still working fine