Article on BBC website - hard disc failure - interesting read!

I thought that was interesting too.

I like the idea that if you have enough of anything, in this case HDD's, the characteristics of machine can be likened to that of life - the survival of the fittest. Very interesting.
 
"After the first scan error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than drives without scan errors."
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Time to keep a closer eye on the failure reports! Good read - thanks for that - pity it doesn't link to the full report.
 
Very interesting, cheers for the read. I particularly like
The report said that there was a clear trend showing "that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates".
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So it appears I might have been right never to worry about the fact that my hard drives sometimes report being 50C+. :)
 
The link to the full report can be found to the right of the BBC article - "hard drive failure trends - Google (PDF"
 
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