The average life span of your hard drive will shock you
If you’ve ever had a hard disk drive (HDD) fail on you, you’re certainly not alone. It turns out that this is actually a lot more common than most people think.
According to research carried out across a sample of over 17,000 hard drives, the average life span of an HDD is only two years and 6 months. Does that make the HDD one of the weakest components inside your PC?
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Cloud storage and backup company Backblaze released an interesting report about the average time it takes for an HDD to…