Ijar Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Hard Drives - Internal or External Whatever Make: What is the life expectancy on these drives.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sknis Posted June 6, 2009 Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Hard Drives - Internal or External Whatever Make: What is the life expectancy on these drives.... What do you want the hard drive for? Long term storage, something to capture videos to, programs, other? What do you want to pay, how fast do you want to search for information on the drive, etc. How large? Raid? Read the reviews. I have two rather small hard drives in my computer, I have an external half Tb as file backup (in a hard drive dock) and a small external hard drive as a system backup. (Not to mention a couple of others on a shelf). I have the web site where I can download original images and do back ups of specific folders to DVD for storage. If I do a project for someone, I remove everything after they approve the DVD project. I don't need images, movies, music that I probably won't use again. I do put the original images on the DVD that I give to them so they can download and print what they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijar Posted June 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2009 Thanks Steve, I have read that Life expectancy of a hard drive - on a discussion board - mention of "Hard drives usually last about 5 years" I was just wondering if it was time to change my Ext HD's as they are fairly old. I use them for long term storage, all my work: pics, docs, music, films, programs, web pics and files etc.. I think as you mention, I'll do back ups of specific folders to DVD for storage. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Dave Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Some manufacturers will quote a MTBF (mean time between failure) for a particular hard drive. The higher the MTFB the longer you can expect the hard drive to live. However, excessive heat will shorten the MTBF for electronics in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Western Digital 'black' drives have a 5 year warranty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijar Posted June 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Western Digital 'black' drives have a 5 year warranty. Thanks Brendon.. much appreciated.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijar Posted June 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Some manufacturers will quote a MTBF (mean time between failure) for a particular hard drive. The higher the MTFB the longer you can expect the hard drive to live. However, excessive heat will shorten the MTBF for electronics in general. Taken into consideration.. Cheers Dave.. thnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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