It's seems, I have a hard drive fail about 2 years now, before terabyte drives the rate was 1 in 5 years. Are failure rates higher the larger the size or is it just lack of quality now days?
itll be battlefront drm - the most evilest form of software known to man :P
all I know is I'm loving this SSD I got.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 10, 2014, 04:21:46 PM
all I know is I'm loving this SSD I got.
+1. I'm never going back to the old mechanical drives.
I'm not sure what I have, but this desktop of mine is almost 7 years old and still plays well enough.
Only issues I have is that it crashes about once a week and sometimes (maybe one out of four or five times) when it goes into Sleep mode, it won't wake up.
I can't get a new one for many months, and that's only if my company finally pays a bonus (#firstworldproblems).
power glitch, temperature, bad writes due to the software/OS and sometimes just defective drives are all reasons. I feel the pain.
The system does make a difference. Servers are usually rock solid because they're designed to be. A Windows desktop/pc is not built to the same spec or with the same idea in mind. Our clients really dreaded switching some of their kit to windows hosts from IBM AIX (their flavor of Unix) Power system hosts after so many years, and I wasn't a big fan of the switch either. Combine that with a lack of USB power backup (for some odd reason), bad weather, and being at the end of a shaky power grid, and hdd's started failing often. On the other hand, the IBM systems had a few logical errors (i.e. not physical problems), and maybe only once a year.
I personally would switch to solid state if it was my own pc. Will be my next upgrade for sure.
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I think I'll stay away from Seagate drives from now on, 2 of the 3 drives that failed were Seagate, also found some info that Seagate drives have a higher failure rate.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/putting-hard-drive-reliability-to-the-test-shows-not-all-disks-are-equal/