This article mentions disposing of hard drives that have reached their five-year mark and are no longer under warranty.
Does anybody actually want hard drives this old? Isn't the whole point that the risk of failure and therefore data loss is too high by this point? Even if you're using them to store data redundantly, you're running the risk that when one drive fails, the backup will also encounter failure due to the stress of reading its entire contents at once in the attempt to create a new backup.
Does anybody actually want hard drives this old? Isn't the whole point that the risk of failure and therefore data loss is too high by this point? Even if you're using them to store data redundantly, you're running the risk that when one drive fails, the backup will also encounter failure due to the stress of reading its entire contents at once in the attempt to create a new backup.