fry178:

@Robbo9999 lol MTB for a meltdown of a nuclear power plant is 1B years. how long did it take till Chernobyl happened? do you know there is a difference between theoretical (life) and real world?... what prevents it from dying the day after you started transferring all your photos?..

Ha, well one things for certain, I ain't gonna be testing the 205yr theory!

A nuclear power plant would meltdown in minutes if the control rods failed or all the water went away. What ever happens you are covered by a 5 year warranty which is fine. I don't expect many HDDs to last that long which is why you only get a year or two at most with mechanical drives.

Reddoguk:

A nuclear power plant would meltdown in minutes if the control rods failed or all the water went away. What ever happens you are covered by a 5 year warranty which is fine. I don't expect many HDDs to last that long which is why you only get a year or two at most with mechanical drives.

for hdd only low-end model(standard end user drive) that give 2years warranty, which probably the one you been using, not sure with any hdd that have less warranty than that... never using those standard warranty for mid model 3years, high&enterprise model 5years https://support-en.wd.com/app/Warranty_Policy https://www.seagate.com/support/warranty-and-replacements/ WD RED/ironwolf 3years all enterprise model, WD BLACK/REDpro/ironworlf (including barracuda-pro) 5years now, SSD last much longer, if maker(like corsair) that confident then why not extend warranty last longer like 10years (or the TBW value reached, whichever one comes first.) that should looks whole better to consumer no ? corsair high-end power-supply have 10years warranty. heck their DRAM stick been lifetime warranty

@Noisiv in school. either math/physic class, but dont remember if it was about statistics/random or about safety/nuclear tech etc,, couple decades ago 😀 warranty does not equal working drive hours, nor do i get my data back. as any other man made product it can fail much sooner than expected. not talking about being a bad product, but random/chance, so i stopped looking at those nbrs outside being an indicator. how many fans are rated 150000 and fail below 50000.