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Average Life of Hard Drive?
I run a professional motion graphics and animation studio and have recently had an HD die on me (bad sector).
It has been used hardcore for about 2 years.
Is this the expected lifespan?
Gribble
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That all depends on your HD how well was it built… there a lot of factors that go into how long the drive will last, I have had media drives die in a year or last for 10 it depends on the drive…
Simon Carlson-Thies
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The HD was the stock standard one that ships with the Dual G5 PPC.
I think for Asia Pacific the Macs are shipped out of Singapore…Gribble
::: Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana ::: -
The SATA drives that were typically shipping in Power Macs are Maxtors with a one year warranty. I think they have a mean time between failures of about 350,000 to 500,000 hours. Meaning, on average they last several years, but any single drive could fail at any time.
DRW
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