Important to note that the data only includes failed drives, as it is from a data recover company. Reliability data from Backblaze would be far more useful.
Me rebooting my XP rig that sat for 10 years on a 17 year old seagate 250gb lol. Still works. But I kinda wanna get something faster. Keep my XP rig for retro gaming
Nothing wrong with a little extra storage. I used to do desktop support for 12 years and drive failures weren't as common as people say. We had about 1600 desktops and like 400 laptops. I did thorough tests of all the drives I encountered for issues, machine checkups, and rebuilds for a new user... and not too many had issues. Co workers would just throw in a new drive if windows had a blue screen and call it a drive failure, but I liked to actually check. This was from drives ranging from 30gb up to 500gb when I left (and ssd's being increasingly popular).
I have a western digital I've had in my PC for about 10 years now still running great. It actually has been getting a lot of use over the last year or so also
I believe I have a netbook (with a HDD) from 2008, Windows XP :D . And my PC from 2009, still works ( i7 first ever gen), with an old HDD, while has been used savagely for large print files and video editing all those years (till 2020, but it's still alive, still works without ANY failure). It used many versions of Windows. Oh, and my sister has a laptop with HDD, I believe from 2007.
My old hard drive died recently after having used it constantly for 13 years through over 10 different os installs and through a earthquake the thing was a beast
old SSDs may not fail as easily but when they do it's far harder to recover and you get less warning. not to mention other problems like the higher risk of your SSD/usbstick data being degraded or erased by going too long without power or OS maintenance tasks running.
As a person fixing computers, harddrives usually last way longer than 3 years and Toshiba 2.5inch are by far the worst harddrives reliability wise, to the point that when I get broken laptop I don't even bother testing it, I straight up replace it.
As someone who used to work at a computer repair shop, I find the Toshiba thing so hard to believe. Most of the bad drives we'd replace were... Toshiba. And it wasn't even close.
Due to an acquisition of manufacturing facilities many Toshiba drives are built using the same lines as Hitachi's extremely reliable enterprise offerings. Also this video is going to be non-representative of actual reliability because of how the data was acquired.
Hard drives can work forever in their ideal condition (optimal temps, no shaking or at least no movement that could damage the mechanical pieces inside), SSD will last as long as their cells are rather for.
You need to keep in mind the years is not in actual calander years but in drive hours. You can install crystal disk info to check how many hours your drive have. I have a Seagate 2tb from 2018 that has now 12k hours according to crystal disk info. And no bad sectors so it is well within limits..
I still had a WD 1tb HDD that still worked after 5 years before i upgraded my PC.I got another black WD 2tb HDD for extra storage where i can put non-gaming stuff and my mods and other stuff.I use SSD for boot and gaming tho.
Please also note that SSDs when not powered, will have your data dissipated through passive discharge. For back up/IO non-intensive storages, harddisk does the job better. I had my WD blue going nearly 10 years, plugged in and used everyday, still going strong without bad sectors
My Intel NVMe SSD lasted only 4 years before Windows determined it was in critical condition. Meanwhile my 500 GB HDD from Samsung is still in perfect condition after over 15 years.
I laughed a little at the “Stop using these hard drives, before it’s too late” while showing a Seagate drive. Lol. I stopped using Seagate more than 10 years ago.
SSD -> PC Storage (Games, Windows, etc) HDD -> Cloud Storage (you won't be using it as often as your main rig anyway) (unless you need real fast storage for a cloudserver)
I have 2 barracuda hard drive from 2015 and both of them still work I use them for saving live videos and they are still working perfectly they were the cheapest models
SSDs still have a limited read-write so they can also fail abruptly. they are more reliable overall and ofc faster, but the price to size ratio isn't quite there yet. A high capacity spinning platter drive over 2tb is still preferred for well... mass storage of files.
I had a Hitachi drive which lasted 11 years but it had stopped working as i opened it up a few months ago. I’ve got a Seagate HDD which was made in 1998 and it still works. It uses IDE and only has 40GB
As much as I want to have an all SSD array, this is not financially possible for my xD 120 TB of SSD space is alot more expensive than 120 TB of Hard Drives I have now
