Hard Drives Fail More Often Than You Think

According to separate studies done by the Carnegie Mellon University and Google, you can expect between 2% and 13% of all hard drives to fail in any given year.  This failure rate is much higher than what hard drive manufacturers’ data would lead you to believe.

This PC World article explores some of the reasons for this discrepancy in the expected reliability of hard drives.

Regardless of the actual scale of the problem, the bottom line for your business remains simple – back-up all your critical data regularly so that any hard drive crash is merely an inconvenience rather than a disaster.