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A sample of over 5,000 drives reveals one problem with new HDDs
Many fail in the first year, and those that do often don’t even warn you there’s a problem One problem with Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) is mechanical unpredictability.
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Many fail in the first year, and those that do often don’t even warn you there’s a problem One problem with Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) is mechanical unpredictability. In other words, they can fail because of a factory defect in the first week or chug away quite happily until failing without warning once they get older.
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