Local Hard Drive Failures – don’t get caught out

21Sep07

After the recent failure of my friend’s hard drive I decided to look a little more into hard drive failures.

I was shocked to come across a recent study by Garth Gibson from Carnegie Mellon that suggests hard drive failure rates are 15 times higher than what manufacturer specifications report.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012066

And how many of us take care of our hard drives the way experts suggest? A list of what is recommended…

1. Long burn in times.

2. Mount drives vertically.

3. Keep them cool.

4. Replace them every two years.

These hard drives are picky little machines. I much rather have experts worrying about storing my data on-line than have to pamper my hard drives. At tagandfile.com we will pamper and protect your data so you don’t have to be a slave to the demands of your hard drive.

Any readers out there have horror stories of their drives failing?

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