My 12 year old 500GB Toshiba Hard Drive still works.

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It still works fine today (as of 2018).. How long it will still function as I'm using it to save my least valuable files. Btw it didn't work last year but until I put extreme shake and tap to it, it continues to run. I'm just curious as they say they only last at least 5 years.
 
Solution
They do not say, they only last five years. They say the Mean Time Between Failure (average) is five years. I've got a 4GB IDE hard drive that I purchased around 1993 that still worked the last time I checked. As for yours, it might last 20 more seconds. It might last 20 more years.

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Wolfshadw

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They do not say, they only last five years. They say the Mean Time Between Failure (average) is five years. I've got a 4GB IDE hard drive that I purchased around 1993 that still worked the last time I checked. As for yours, it might last 20 more seconds. It might last 20 more years.

-Wolf sends
 
Solution
MTBF is not expected lifespan. Otherwise you would live 800 years: 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Last time I checked, MTBF was stated in hours and most manufacturers claim in excess of 200 000 hours on the majority of their drives, which is 20+ years.

As for OP's question, you never know. Some HDDs may look like they'll go on forever (I have a 30 years old 200MB drive that still worked the last time I tried it) and some will have premature failure in the first year. When drives decide to die, they can go from seemingly working perfectly fine to dead in a matter of hours or less. You cannot rely exclusively on only one HDD-based backup for irreplaceable data.
 

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I bought one of the first Samsung SSD's back in 2008ish. It's 255GB, I paid about $350 for it, Ive been using it everyday as my C drive and I've never had a problem with it.
 

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I have 20 year old drives that still work.
I had a brand new drive die at 5 weeks old.

All drives die eventually.

The only way to combat drive death and data loss is a good backup.
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