Posted by MarkB_MI on March 09, 2014 at 05:30:57 from (75.241.116.124):
In Reply to: Hard Drive Failures. posted by farmer boy on March 08, 2014 at 23:14:34:
I've rarely experienced a true hard disk failure. More often, Windows will corrupt the boot sector so the PC won't boot, but that's not the fault of the hard drive. My Linux systems have never experienced a hard drive failure in the 18+ years I've been running Linux. My Linux PC runs 24 x 7.
In theory, SSDs should be more reliable than mechanical drives. But they do suffer failures; their primary advantage is speed rather than reliability.
Here's a study made by the online backup company Backblaze. They found Hitachi drives to be the most reliable. Take the information with a grain of salt, since they use only a small number of different drive models
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