Failed Hard Drives Lasted Less Than Three Years, Analysis Finds
Networkworld, April 12th, 2023
Secure Data Recovery examined failure rates and lifespans of 2,007 hard drives from six manufacturers.
Failed hard disk drives ran for an average of 25,233 hours before their demise, which translates to a lifespan of two years and 10 months.
That's according to Secure Data Recovery, which has a specific perspective on the matter. It specializes in salvaging data from failed hard drives, so pretty much every hard drive that it sees isn't working properly, which gives it the opportunity to spot some patterns in hard drive longevity. (Secure Data Recovery's analysis is different from the quarterly hard-drive report from cloud storage vendor Backblaze, which focuses on the few hard drives that fail out of the hundreds of thousands that it uses.)