Owen Townend wrote: lee:
You are saying that the age of the drives doesn't matter at all? Then if you lose one drive out of 24 every month, that would mean that about 4% of all drives sold are junk. The new ones you get could fail within the first few minutes ... or not work at all. Or does this mean that it takes about one to two months before you find out if a new drive is junk? And why don't the drives that are junk fail in the first few minutes or don't don't work at all?
Choice quote from the above post by Tracy R Reed: " - - There is no infant mortality phase for drives nor is there a particular age at which they tend to die (no "bathtub curve" typical for consumer products). Rate of drive failure is initially low but steadily increases as they age.
This. This is what I am referring to. Thanks, Owen. Mark Allums