Which means that for every 1.4 million hard drives sold, only one will burn out during the first hour of operation. Once into the second hour all bets are off. There's no way the average disk drive lasts 160 years before failing. From personal experience I'd say the real median is around 4 years.
>> Which means that for every 1.4 million hard drives sold, only one will burn out during the first hour of operation.
I have had fairly bad luck with WD drives over the years, so that 1 that fails will, no doubt, be mine.
Why don’t you other 1.4 million folks take up a collection and buy me that first one, and then we’ll all be off the hook. ;-)
For a real-life view, an organization that has only 1,000 of these drives among all systems can expect a drive failure about every two months. A nicer way of looking at it is that odds are your RAID with 14 drives won't have a failure for over 10 years.