{
  "id": 9167856,
  "title": "13 years of hard drive failures could tell us what age HDDs actually become risky",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/13-years-of-hard-drive-failures-could-tell-us-what-age-hdds-actually",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-22T17:00:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "XDA Developers",
    "slug": "xda-developers",
    "url": "https://www.xda-developers.com/13-years-of-hdd-failures-tells-us-when-drives-become-risky/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}