Data recovery companies blame SMR and size after limited analysis.
A data recovery firm that analyzed 2,007 damaged or defective hard disk drives (HDDs) concluded that “in general, older drives appear to be more durable and resilient than newer ones.” I was.
This statement is from Los Angeles-based HDD, SSD, and RAID data recovery company (appropriately named Secure Data Recovery). The company claims he has been in business since 2007 and has resolved more than 100,000 cases. I checked the HDD I received in 2022. According to his Secure Data Recovery blog post spotted by Blocks & Files on Thursday, “most” of these drives ranged from he 40GB to his 10TB.
A data recovery firm that analyzed 2,007 damaged or defective hard disk drives (HDDs) concluded that “in general, older drives appear to be more durable and resilient than newer ones.” I was.
This statement is from Los Angeles-based HDD, SSD, and RAID data recovery company (appropriately named Secure Data Recovery). The company claims he has been in business since 2007 and has resolved more than 100,000 cases. I checked the HDD I received in 2022. According to his Secure Data Recovery blog post spotted by Blocks & Files on Thursday, “most” of these drives ranged from he 40GB to his 10TB. Mean time to failure sample size was 2 years and 10 months, with 2,007 failed disks having an average of 1,548 bad sectors.
“1,548 bad sectors from hundreds of millions or billions of disk partitions may seem small, but in many cases the pace of development increases and the risk of data corruption doubles,” the blog says. says.
Secure Data Recovery isn’t the only company looking for storage insights with their business. As Blocks & Files points out, his Backblaze, a backup and cloud storage company, uses hard drives that exceed the life expectancy of the HDDs customers sent in last year. As of the end of 2022, Backblaze’s average age of his 230,921 hard drives was 3.6 years. By comparison, the average time to drive failure that Secure Data Recovery worked on last year was 2 years and 10 months for him. Clearly, Backblaze has a much larger sample size. In addition, the analysis is more detailed, classifying HDD failure rate trends by model. This discrepancy demonstrates the challenge of determining exactly when a hard drive is likely to fail and the importance of data backup.
Are older drives more durable?
If your hard drive doesn’t last as long as it used to, you’re not alone. The Secure Data Recovery blog suggested a relationship between when hard drives were manufactured and how long they last before they fail. We found that the top five most durable and resilient hard drives by any manufacturer were manufactured before 2015. Meanwhile, most of the hard drives that are the least durable and resilient of any manufacturer were manufactured after 2015.
Unfortunately, Secure Data Recovery doesn’t specify what “most of the time” means. However, it does suggest that HDD manufacturers are pushing the boundaries of performance. This is one reason why his HDD may have become less reliable with newer products. This includes size limits that reduce the “spacing between moving parts that would affect mechanical damage and wear resistance.”
Secure Data Recovery has also slammed his three-letter acronym, which in 2020 has become almost a four-letter word to describe his users.
SMR. The revelation that various brands such as Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba were secretly selling devices with layered magnetic recording disks instead of CMR (conventional magnetic recording) disks shocked consumers. Western Digital ended up paying $2.7 million in a class action lawsuit. Users were primarily concerned that drives with SMR would offer slower random write speeds than drives with CMR, but Secure Data Recovery found that hard drives put “more stress” on the components. We also believe that SMR impacts HDD reliability because it increases
“1,548 bad sectors from hundreds of millions or billions of disk partitions may seem small, but in many cases the pace of development increases and the risk of data corruption doubles,” the blog says. says.
Secure Data Recovery isn’t the only company looking for storage insights with their business. As Blocks & Files points out, his Backblaze, a backup and cloud storage company, uses hard drives that exceed the life expectancy of the HDDs customers sent in last year. As of the end of 2022, Backblaze’s average age of his 230,921 hard drives was 3.6 years. By comparison, the average time to drive failure that Secure Data Recovery worked on last year was 2 years and 10 months for him. Clearly, Backblaze has a much larger sample size. In addition, the analysis is more detailed, classifying HDD failure rate trends by model. This discrepancy demonstrates the challenge of determining exactly when a hard drive is likely to fail and the importance of data backup.
Are older drives more durable?
If your hard drive doesn’t last as long as it used to, you’re not alone. The Secure Data Recovery blog suggested a relationship between when hard drives were manufactured and how long they last before they fail. We found that the top five most durable and resilient hard drives by any manufacturer were manufactured before 2015. Meanwhile, most of the hard drives that are the least durable and resilient of any manufacturer were manufactured after 2015.
Unfortunately, Secure Data Recovery doesn’t specify what “most of the time” means. However, it does suggest that HDD manufacturers are pushing the boundaries of performance. This is one reason why his HDD may have become less reliable with newer products. This includes size limits that reduce the “spacing between moving parts that would affect mechanical damage and wear resistance.”
Secure Data Recovery has also slammed his three-letter acronym, which in 2020 has become almost a four-letter word to describe his users.
SMR. The revelation that various brands such as Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba were secretly selling devices with layered magnetic recording disks instead of CMR (conventional magnetic recording) disks shocked consumers. Western Digital ended up paying $2.7 million in a class action lawsuit. Users were primarily concerned that drives with SMR would offer slower random write speeds than drives with CMR, but Secure Data Recovery found that hard drives put “more stress” on the components. We also believe that SMR impacts HDD reliability because it increases
