{"id":30170,"date":"2018-02-28T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/?p=30170"},"modified":"2023-06-08T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:06:56","slug":"hard-drives-shelf-life-fail-run-hard-drive-recovery-easeus-recovery-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/2018\/hard-drives-shelf-life-fail-run-hard-drive-recovery-easeus-recovery-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard drives: Their Shelf Life, Why They Fail And How To Run A Hard Drive Recovery With ‘EaseUS Recovery Wizard’."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hard drives are that space inside our devices where all the information is stored. When the device and the drive work fine, we should have no problem on finding any information on it, but the truth is that even when most of us don\u2019t know, hard drives have a limited lifetime and once it\u2019s done, they\u2019ll die without a warning. Also, there\u2019re lots of causes that can bring failure to a hard drive and end up in lost data.<\/p>\n

To make sure you protect your data from all of it, we\u2019ve compiled the most common reasons why hard drives fail (for you to be alert) and also we\u2019ll talk about the life cycle of the hard drive and present you EaseUS , the best tool to perform a hard drive recovery<\/strong> in case that you\u2019ve already lost your information. Keep reading!<\/p>\n

What is the average shelf life of a standard Hard Drive?<\/h3>\n

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This question, curiously, has evaded studies for a long time; no one seemed to think or care about this and therefore it was hard to predict. But only five years ago (2013) a company called BlackBlaze finally performed the study with 25.000 hard drives that were running at the same time, all the time. With this study, they proved that there\u2019re 3 different lifespans for the drives that include 1,5 years, 3 years and beyond 3 years.<\/p>\n

The results showed that 92% of the hard drives survive the first phase living more than 1,5 years, 90% survive the 3 years phase and 80% survive the fourth year’s phase. This is really promising but after that, the engineer Brian Beach calculated that after the sixth year, the possibilities of survival are lower than 50%.<\/p>\n

Why do hard drives fail or die?<\/h3>\n

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There\u2019re some common reasons why a hard drive can fail, including (if it\u2019s too early) manufacturing problems, but for expositive reasons, we\u2019ve circled them in three groups:<\/p>\n