Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that’s netted the firm a lot of data. And that data has led the company to conclude that HDDs “are lasting longer” and showing fewer errors. //

Biffstar Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
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My 320mb (megabyte) IDE IBM hard drive from 1994 still boots Win3.1 and loads Doom II just fine.

Who says older drives are unreliable?