Comments on: Hard Drive Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/10/hard-drive-data-recovery/ Hard drive recovery data recovery resource center with how to guides for windows RAID Snap server file system repair NTFS partition recovery tools tips and tricks to recover data Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:43:29 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Davedata99 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/10/hard-drive-data-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-630 Davedata99 Fri, 11 May 2007 16:00:14 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/10/hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-630 Drive manufacturers have a spec on all drives they manufacture called Mean Time before Failure. This could be 300,000 hours or 500,000 etc. However, this is a mean not an average. I have experience with drives that have failed with in weeks and I have had hard drives last several years. This is manufacturer wide, I have had drives over the last decade from almost all manufacturers last many years, as well as fail with in the first year. Long story short they will fail. It is just a matter of when and where you are in your back-up process that will determine the magnitude of the failure. If the hard drive fails immediately after you have backed-up all your data, no big deal. Conversely, the data on the hard drive is usually worth a great deal more then the hard drive itself. Recovering data from a hard drive that has failed physically is a somewhat daunting task. Making sure you are up to date on your back-up can save a lot of time and money. Drive manufacturers have a spec on all drives they manufacture called Mean Time before Failure. This could be 300,000 hours or 500,000 etc. However, this is a mean not an average. I have experience with drives that have failed with in weeks and I have had hard drives last several years. This is manufacturer wide, I have had drives over the last decade from almost all manufacturers last many years, as well as fail with in the first year. Long story short they will fail. It is just a matter of when and where you are in your back-up process that will determine the magnitude of the failure.

If the hard drive fails immediately after you have backed-up all your data, no big deal. Conversely, the data on the hard drive is usually worth a great deal more then the hard drive itself. Recovering data from a hard drive that has failed physically is a somewhat daunting task. Making sure you are up to date on your back-up can save a lot of time and money.

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