Most Failed Disk Drives Fail Just Before They Hit 3 Years' Use, Says Data Recovery Biz
Blocks & Files, March 16th, 2023
Secure Data Recovery found that average failed hard drive spun for 25,233 hours before failing. That's 1,051 days, or two years and ten months.
Failed drive data recovery biz Secure Data Recovery has produced a report giving its experience of hard disk drive life expectancy from 2,007 damaged and defective drives it has received for data recovery purposes.
Author and content writer Timothy Burlee writes that it calculated the power-on hours number, 'calculated from when the user first started the device to its arrival at our facilities.' It also 'computed the current pending sector count for failed devices. The current pending sector count refers to the number of damaged or unusable sectors the hard drive developed during routine read-and-write operations.' It excluded drives that failed from non-predictable events such as electrical surges, malware, natural disasters, or accidental mishandling.