[Lx]

Three years is about 36 months

About?

I agree about the stats on seven hard drives but even in a data center running continuously, they last longer than three years, usually up to five years or more. They become obsolete quick, too.

[tflabo]

Server drives and most likely with redundant backups surely contains a backup copy stored somewhere. And from the IRS of all places-

[vbmoneyspender]

What about raid. Disks fail but that doesn’t mean the data is lost because the disks are redundant

[Mycroft Holmes]

With an average lifespan of 3 years on hard drives I must have been incredibly lucky over the past 30 odd years. All of my hard drives ended their lives by becoming too small.

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