I owned the same computer with the same hdd, and must have maxed out the entire disk about a thousand times downloading and pirating music and movies from limewire and never had the 3.5" HDD fail.Why are HDD's today so failure prone compared to older drives from the 90s and early 2000s?
>>108811106Lower density.
>>108811106Everything needs to be faster and have more capacity. Faster spindle speeds, faster head seeking, more platters... All in the same form factor means something's gotta give.
its a mystery
>>108811106Perpendicular recording is simply not as a reliable as longitudinal recording and has much finer tolerances. Perpendicular magnetic recording was developed in 1970s but wasn't commercially pursued due to the aforementioned issues until superparamagnetism became an issue with longitudinal recording in mid-2000s. The commercial industry converted over but it took an noise-dive in reliability and longevity. It didn't bother most users as they kept getting bigger HDDs when their units failed on them. Now that we are hitting superparamagnetism with perpendicular recording. The industry is resorting to more exotic technologies such as shingled magnetic recording and heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR).
High density platters often meant stacking them or using a ton of magnetic bumps. This can cause reliability issues overtime compared to lower density platters.
lil timmy simply needs cheap dense storage for his 40tb tranny porn collection and newest cod and wont settle for less
they didn't use high compression recording methods which can cause data errors
>>108811161hamr is such an insane technology and mamr is even crazieri have to wonder what the next great leap in hdd technology will be. radiation assisted?
>>108811519Its been here all along, bro
>>108811106lower rotational velocidensity
Why did they never change the size of HDDs
>>108811106>Why were older hard drives more reliable?Because you only have experience about those rare hard drives that did survive and not 99.9999% of them which broke. Survivorship bias
>>108811106>Why were older hard drives more reliable?They weren't really. Any "modern" drive like from the SATA era or maybe even the late IDE era should be quite reliable. That doesn't mean they never fail, or that there weren't bad batches with issues.
excessive power management with constant spindowns/ups if not disabled
