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A comment on Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-Random Number Generator. Parent comment

Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by pdonis on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:01AM (#34800281)
> Any drive can fail at any time for any reason and it may be totally unrecoverable.

While in principle this is true, I have been using hard drives for more than 30 years now in PCs and I have never had one fail. I still back things up to separate drives since there's always a first time, but I've never used SpinRite or any other extra "protection" over and above what my OS provided.

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Re:Gibson Research Corporation's Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-R... by svc0 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:21AM (#34800398)
There are stats on failure rates and bathtub curves. Consumer hard drives these days have an AFT of ~1.41%. Never used SpinRite and I don't know if there is evidence for it but I suggest you backup your data.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...

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