How long do disk drives last?

Re:How long do disk drives last? by pyGuru on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @09:06AM (#6717877)

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what the savings would amount to if this company used something like SpinRite to fix / recover failed drives? Although I've never used it from what I hear its pretty good at saving drives...

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Re:How long do disk drives last? by jlgaddis on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:25AM (#6718674)

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

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Re:How long do disk drives last? by wazoox on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:21AM (#6718648)

It's actually not that good at saving drives, however it sometimes saves your data. Lately I've used it to recover a 250 GB drive that was part of a failed RAID-5 array, and miraculously got the data back.

So SpinRite may be handy, but throw the drive away after use.

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