What are typical drive lifetimes?

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Mar 15, 2026263 views

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Can anyone tell me about the lifetime of drives (floppy, hard disk, CD, DVD, flash...)?

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Google labs did a study on Hard Drive failures found here. It goes in dept on rates and indicators. It seems SMART detection isn't as good as one would think.

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