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The life of a hard drive and data to back it up (no pun intended, well, maybe a little)

travelintrevortravelintrevor Member
edited November 2013 in home
Interesting read for those of us that have a few hard drives.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170748-how-long-do-hard-drives-actually-live-for

Rudy
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  • Neil vNNeil vN Administrator
    And still I see so many new photographers complain in Facebook groups about loss of data, begging for any kind of help.

    I have a hard time suppressing my response of, "go to your back-up drive".

    Anyway, interesting to see these figures. And from this, there's also the hard-hitting realization that we're talking about hard drives surviving but a few years only, before they are really prone to failure.
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  • MikeZMikeZ Member
    If anyone uses back blaze they sent an email, last week, touching on this also. My back ups have backed up back ups. Drives are cheap why take chances.
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