Life expectancy

[sam_rowsell]

Do you know what the average life expectancy for a new good quality hard drive is? Any information would be great. Cheers

 

[The_Other_One]

I'd say start worrying if your drive makes it around 3 years of pretty constant use

 

[sam_rowsell]

That aint much eh. Has life expectancy improved with time?

 

[Hairy_Lee]

If you're buying a new drive the average life expectancy of the drive will be quoted somewhere on the packaging or on the drive itself. If not it should be on the manual

 

[Ku-sama]

ive had drives last anywhere from 6 minuets to 8 years....

 

[Filip]

I have mine 3 years now and it works fine. I'll be buying a Serial ATA soon.

 

[OvenMaster]

Specs for my Maxtor DX541 and my WD both say "minimum 5 years" and "minimum 50,000 start/stop cycles". To say these drives get hard use is understating the issue; I've never had a problem with either with my box running about 16 hours a day. The Maxtor I migrated from my old DEC box; it's going on 5 years without a single problem.
Tom

 

[Burgon]

My one lasted 0 minutes, had it replaced thou