A lot of our customers will ask about hard drive failures and how often they happen. Like alternators in cars… a lot. Here is a look at some failure statistics.


How Long Your Hard Drive Is Likely to Last
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No physical storage medium lasts forever, and as you probably already know, hard drives in particular can die rather unexpectedly. But how long can you expect your drive to live? 5 years? 50? Backblaze has crunched some numbers to find hard drive failure rates.