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