13 years of hard drive failures could tell us what age HDDs actually become risky
Hard drives have a reputation of being painfully slow, fit for secondary and archival storage alone. Ever since SSDs replaced them for most use cases , they have only had cost in their favor. While they remain popular for NAS use, reliability remains a key consideration. A new study of over 400,000 hard drives spanning 13 years of usage throws new light on conventional wisdom regarding hard drive…
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