HDD average life span misses 3-year mark in study of 2,007 defective drives [Updated] Data recovery firm blames SMR and size, following limited analysis.

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   Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 09:07:12 JST Carl T. Bergstrom

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   @waldok l

   This story follows a previous @arstechnica story that somehow managed not to notice that hard drives sent to a data recovery company are not a good sample from which to estimate hard drive failure rates and instead blames SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology.

   It even notes that the previous study sounded too bad to be true, but then takes the Backblaze results as evidence to the contrary.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/hdds-arent-as-durable-as-they-used-to-be-study-of-2007-damaged-drives-suggests/