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Large HDD's (User not commercial grade) Reliability question
Hi there
Anybody using the larger 2, 3, and 4TB HDD's yet. I'm curious as to their MTBF's (Mean time before Failure) or in plain English how reliable are they if left on for often up to 18 hrs a day.
I'm speaking generally of CONSUMER grade HDD's (the sort of things individuals buy) not the commercial grade HDD's that are used in professional server systems.
I know HDD's do fail but nothing like as often as they could do -- at least that's been my experience.
SSD's are great for OS'es etc but for things like multi-media and office type data there's no reason to go for expensive SSD's. These large HDD's also IMO make good archival storage and backup too.
Anybody with decent experience of these
Cheers
jimbo