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Hard Drives with the best failure rate?
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Avatar Image   Started by dbowling dbowling has 317 Grupie Points 1 year ago         Comments 3 Comments

I want to expand my storage, but am looking for the most reliable hard drives.

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The old 5 1/2 inch disk drives only lasted 2 years or so. I have only had one 3.5 inch drive fail and I have had some of them fo... [show more]

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fangism 1 year ago

A low failure rate is no guarantee of no failure -- ALWAYS BACKUP your most critical data and irreplacable files (e.g., to CD/DVDs). I consider 5 years a decent lifetime for a HD, my expectations are lower for laptop components.

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dbowling 1 year ago

These drives are actually for my backup server, ironically. But if I'm going to invest 600 bucks on space, I'd like it to be for as long as possible.

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chromigula 1 year ago

If you're going to invest $600, you might be better off getting a RAIDed NAS or external drive. Terabyte USB drives are coming down in price!

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This topic was started by dbowling dbowling has 317 Grupie Points on October 6th, 2007. 3 grupies have voted on one or more of the 1 answers.

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