its a 4200 RPM seagate 40 GB PATA 2.5" hard disk. its in operation from december 2005. HDDlife program shows me the cumulative uptime of this disk till date is 3144 hours. considering these factors, can i rely on it without much worry? of course i know that for hard disks its more difficult to predict failure, but there still is some fixed probability of something happening based on past averages and ideal MTBF. considering my hard disk's age and uptime, whats the risk- very low, low, moderate, high or very high?
2007-03-14 05:43:52 · 2 answers · asked by Rishabh Singla 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It really depends on the environment you are using it. If the temperatures are very high or very low it will affect the life of the drive. If the laptop feels very hot in the region where the harddrive is expect it to last less than 5 years. I have seen one that lasted only 18 months because it was running at close to 55° C/ 133° F for most of it's life, which would put the risk at moderate.
Based on uptime alone I would say the risk is very low.
2007-03-18 02:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by jason b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very low.
2007-03-14 12:48:26 · answer #2 · answered by SKG R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋