I keep hearing people say that hard drives won’t last long and to always have backups. But if it is like that, that means you would have to be buying drives consistently? Has anyone ever had a hard drive work for them successfully for a decade or even more where they wouldn’t have to be buying more?
HDDs usually die with a U pattern - they either die very quickly, or after a very, very long time. There’s plenty of working decades-old HDDs.
so if it doesnt die within the first year it will probably last close to a decade?
does desktop HDD last longer than laptops?