On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 01:44:23 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> ANY hard drive can fail the day > >> > >> after you buy it, a month after you buy it, and so on, though > >> obviously the probability of a particular drive failing at any point > >> in time may vary by what you pay for it. > > > > or if it was meant to be used the way you use it. > > Like I said, I'm certainly interested in any actual data that supports > that drives sold to run 24x7 last any longer than desktop drives when > run 24x7.
Not hard data, but while still using desktop drives, I had a drive failure on average once or twice a year. Now with enterprise 24x7 drives, the failure rate has dropped to 1 in the past 3 years. That is, for both, using proper UPS equipment. Additionally, I noticed a definite speed increase after switching to enterprise disks. -- Joost
