Generally speaking, you can rely on your hard drive for three to five years on average. A compelling study that proved this statistic comes from the online backup company Backblaze who analyzed the failure rates of 25,000 running hard drives.Sep 15, 2020
Is a 1TB hard drive fast?
Despite the effect on the formatting speed of the drive, the data handling speed remained the same pre- and postpatch. In fact, the Spinpoint F1 ran through HD Tach with the fastest results of the four 1TB drives tested so far: 205.8Mbyte/sec. burst speed and 95.9Mbyte/sec. average read.Jan 30, 2008