Hard Drives Lives

[jason69uk]

If a drive is kept in good maintenance with defragging, loads of fans and sector fixes..what else is there to damage it??

surely eventually the drive will die but how will it just die??

Will the bad sectors become too much to handle eventually and soon be unrecoverable or something??

[Soopafresh]

Friction and heat eventually catch up to it. There are moving parts.

"Even the Mona Lisa is Falling Apart" - Fight Club

[otpw1]

Lots of "death modes". One HD I had a head detached and gouged the ufck of one side of one platter. It was stalled after 15 seconds. ABSOLUTELY NO WARNING!
Generally bad sectors accumulate.

[AlinaVastag84]

There are 2 kinds of death of a HDD:
-first is a fault to the electronical assembly from under the HDD (which is 99% : sudden death) usualy caused by overheat...
-second is by mecanical problems with the discs or heads (I have lot of friends that used to walk with HDD in their pockets) which means 90% : slow & painfull death ,and the most shure way to scratch a disc inside the HDD is to hit the hard when at fullspeed rotation...
And I know sombody who ruined his HDD by defragmenting it once or twice per day...