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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by mrspuratic on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:43AM (#27628795)
7 years is a relatively long time for a product, but not necessarily for a car. The average car age at scrap time is 13.9 years (UK stats). [Wildly off topic ranting about the balance of embodied versus emitted CO2 for the typical ICE vehicle omitted. Clue: 10 years is about the break-even point.]
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by tpxl on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:17AM (#27629309)
> Wildly off topic ranting about the balance of embodied versus emitted CO2 for the typical ICE vehicle omitted. Clue: 10 years is about the break-even point

Do you mean it takes about 10 years for the car to emit the same amount of co2 that was used in producing it?

Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by alisonkisk on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:20AM (#27630426)
If so, that's not "breakeven". Breakeven is when future emissions savings from a newer better car make it worth scrapping (not just selling) a car and replacing it with a newly manufactured one.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by tiagod on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:02AM (#27630219)
FYI in Portugal it was at 21.6 years in 2019.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by oblio on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:45AM (#27640535)
A car has a 7-9 year production lifecycle. So that could mean 14-16 years of parts produced.