The people who run the Backblaze backup system, with around 25,000 hard drives in use, have done a study on how long they last.
Unfortunately they have only been going for about 5 years so that is as far back as their figures go, but they extrapolate for longer periods. Makes interesting reading. Caution, they are referring to hard disks without enclosures/cases. <http://t.co/SK50g7CVRQ> On their blog they have been asked to provide figures by manufacturer which as far as I know they haven¹t done yet. Paul Owen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
