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What is the average lifespan of a hard disk?

Who has been able to keep their computer hard disk drive for longer than 5 years?

  • I'm not talking about replacing a hard drive because you ran out of space, I'm talking about how long someone's been able to keep it without it failing. I guess if you have an expensive one, it's gonna last longer, but I just want to have a general idea about the maximum lifespan of a hard disk drive. Then if my drive fails I won't feel bad if I know I got the most use out of it.

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    Hi. I had a 386 running a 80MB (not a typo) for almost 10 years. But it failed late last year and took all the data with it. ALL harddrives eventually fail. The solid state drives are coming! Holographic after that. Then Quantum based. The future is bright!

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u can make it last longer if u connect a cooler to ur HDD, this kind of cooler goes on the upper side of the HDD and it fits on to a HDD empty slot, that should give u more life to the HDD but it will die eventually so backup often...

crea_dpi

I've had drives that have lasted 8 or 9 years, and kept moving them from computer to computer. Other times I've had them die after one or two years. Just make sure to back up your computer!!!

skeevisdotcom

ive had the same hard drive on my comp since 2001. Never had a single problom

Eddy G

i had mine for about 8 years i think it was a nice little 10gb in a Pentium 2 computer perfect till i tried playing games then it was not so good as long as you do drive maintenance (scandisk and stuff) it should be good for a long time also, avoid hitting it

matenzi

I have had 6 hard drives over a period of twenty years, I never had a failure. All were used in desktop computers.

ray_8128

Seagate hard drives seem to last the longest.

Frostfire

In 1984 I built an IBM PC w/20 meg hard drive now days we only turn it on once a month or so to burn EPROMS. Nothings been replaced in it since.

Lewis C

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