Hard Drive Life Expectancy = Scam

>>60330361
Because you're a fag that doesn't make backups and doesn't understand the purpose of a warranty.

>>60330361
Buy used
Buy cheap
RAID
Replace as necessary

>>60330361
what kind of shitty harddrives are you buying ?
my hdds usually die somewhere between 30000-50000 hours or arrive defective.

>>60330390
Please tell us the purpose of a warranty if it is not planned obsolesce

>>60330361
>Why is this legal?
Because you're retarded.

Don't buy cheap shit.

I have drives that have been running 24x7 at ~80% random I/O (read: head thrash) for about the last decade, and have only had about a 1.5% failure rate.

So yeah, sucks to be you, go cry about it on reddit or something.

>>60330966
>if you don't have hundreds of enterprise drives costing up to $5000 each, you are a retard

>>60330390
Hi I am also a fag that doesn't make backups.

Are there any HD recovery services out there that will restore my old HD and not make fun of me for all the questionable porn I have on it?

tl;dr Which are the best HD recovery services.

>>60330361
>product has guaranteed lifespan
>it dies shortly afterward
fucking retard, if they didn't start dying after two years they'd have a longer warranty

>>60330457
Which is still not even a third of what the manufacturers claim the drive supposedly lives through.

>2 year warranties for clunky mechanical storage devices capable of having sudden and random mechanical failures whenever they feel like it
These HD manufacturers sure have balls. I'd give them 1 year warranties at best.

>>60330483
Mass market consumer products are made with the cheapest method possible so there will be faulty ones. This is the reason.

>>60335742
He probably replaces his HDDs by then. I have a 1TB HDD with 54K hours on it, but it's way too small today to be much use.

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Buy a better drive next time, but seriously all drives fail eventually

>not buying server grade HDDs
>2017

>>60338133
That's a great idea, until you realize how much SAS drives cost.

>>60330361
my wd black has been working for eight years at this point, but I do worry if I should replace it before it dies on me first.

>>60337494
Oh please not Backblaze again.

>>60337494
Why is seagate always so shit? Do they just use lazier robots or something?

just have backups/raid and buy cheap.

>>60340082
The answer is yes

Just rsync it

>>60330966
This. I've literally only had one HD fail in the past 20 years. Don't buy shit, don't abuse the drives, make backups. Sure, sometimes shit happens, but it's rare.

>>60337494
What the fuck is this chart? this doesn't even qualify for statistics it's just a data junk thrown together

Toshiba isn't the best either

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>>60331930
>questionable porn
Please elaborate so I can help you find a service for the specific type of porn.

>>60331930
Hey man, you should always have backups for your questionable porn
I for example have them on BD and dvd, nowadays is hard to find new questionable porn without the worrying about stuff

>>60331930
Did you make a "don't click" folder? otherwise you're fucked

>>60345054
Mine is called thingsdontclickcp2