mnvoronin@kbin.socialtoSysadmin@lemmy.world•Does nonstop reading from a hard drive reduce its lifespan?
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1 year agoHard drives are quite reliable these days. According to the Backblaze stats, the annualized failure rate for modern drives is only about 1.5%. And these guys beat the living shit out of their drives.
That’s for SSDs which is a different thing.