According to UniRecovery Raid Data Recovery Labs, External Hard Disk Drives furnish great flexible storehouse option and security by providing a movable back up option, yet this benefit has dangerous twist to users.
With storehouse capacity running in hundreds of Gigabites, accompanied by high rates of data transfer, in increasing to the flexibility to plug the external drive to a Laptop, Desktop, Server, Memory Cards, Camera or iPod and sold at uncostly prices have increased their popularity dramatically.
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However, as the popularity of the external drives containing backups and important data are increasingly failing for no apparent reasons. Majority of these failing drives are often of well known market brands such as Lacie, Freecom and Omega and with the most recent high capacity Maxtor, Seagate or Western Digital hard disk drives models with storehouse capacity exceeding 320Gb or even 400Gb on a particular drive.
According to a study of 100,000 drives conducted by Carnegie Mellon University, it is widely believed Hard Disk Drive vendors manipulate the (Mttf) - mean time to failure. In fact The mean time to failure (Mttf) of drives, agreeing to their manufacturers, vary from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 hours, suggesting a nominal annual failure rate of at most 0.88%.
Whereas the study finds that "up to 13% observed on some systems.". This suggests that field replacement is a fairly distinct process than one might predict based on datasheet Mttf.
It has also been established that failure rate is not constant with age, and that, rather than a important infant mortality effect, evidently a important early onset of wear-out degradation. That is, replacement rates in investigate data grew constantly with age, an ensue often assumed not to set in until after a nominal lifetime of 5 years. The study, also carefully point out that the study didn't necessarily track actual drive failures, but cases in which a buyer decided a drive had failed and needed replacement. The study also explains that no vendor-specific failure information, and that his goal is not "choosing the best and the worst vendors" but to help them to enhance drive fabricate and testing.
Also, itsybitsy dissimilarity in replacement rates between Scsi, Fc and Sata drives, potentially an indication that disk-independent factors, such as operating conditions, influence replacement rates more than component specific factors. On the other hand, we see only one instance of a buyer rejecting an whole citizen of disks as a bad batch, in this case because of media error rates, and this instance complicated Sata hard disks
Time between replacements, a proxy for time between failure, is not well modelled by an exponential distribution and exhibits important levels of correlation, including autocorrelation and long-range dependence.
Generally, inside the slick casings, often are poorly ventilated or even not ventilated at all, external hard drives assemblers contain the cheapest ready drives such as Maxtor & Seagate, combined with badly ventilated enclosure casing, the mixture is catastrophic for any given user, especially when the hard disk drive is of high capacity containing crucial back-up data
For any given Lacie with multiple drives, this can be a terrible touch with Raid drives and data in excess of 1 terabite. Often with Raid array external drives, the drive failure are more frequent and the damage is more full, than particular drives. agreeing to Haj Majed Aziz of UniRecovery - Raid Data Recovery Labs "many of the 1 terabyte LaCie external drives contain 250Gb Maxtor Ide in Raid array, inside badly ventilated enclosures, when used on regular basis, especially within office environment, they are utter disaster."
Hitachi has unveiled a drive which has reached the new heights of one terabyte (Tb). Its drive looks like any other, but uses perpendicular magnetic recording to make space for all that data.
The current technology generation of Lrt-Longitudinal Recording Technology, which records the bits laying horizontally, has been superseded by the recording of the bits standing vertically. However the cost is in the region of ,000 !
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