On 06/03/19 17:39, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Up to now, I've never had a HDD or SDD fail on me. :-) I hope that > when this does eventually happen, I'll be prepared.
I don't think I've had one of mine fail. I have, however, done recovery jobs on two drives that did fail that I managed to revive long enough to get the data off. And I currently have a second drive that is properly dead, whose owner has asked me to destroy it to make sure that nothing can be recovered off it (the first drive I had in that state was a 60 *G*B drive, which tells you that it was a long time ago). Drives are reliable. Drives do last a long time, and I think many drives have been upgraded before they failed. But nowadays, drives are so large that people don't fill them up and upgrade, so they are used a lot longer, and you're seeing them fail more often. I think I've handled five dead drives (friends and acquaintances) in my career and I'm sure others have seen a lot more. Cheers, Wol
