smith94672
Limp Gawd
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I currently have two old hard drives in good working condition. One is about 80 gb and is almost 9 years old. The other is 160 gb and almost 7 years old. Both are IDE 7200 rpm, made by Seagate, and have been used daily. I did full scans of both recently and there were zero bad sectors.
Neither drive is giving me problems. However, hard drives are notorious for mechanical wear and tear and the rule of thumb seems to be maybe an average of 5 years for the life-span of a hard drive.
Should I continue using these drives? Or move their data somewhere else and just throw the hard drives away? ( what's the point in keeping the drives if they are going to die soon anyway? )
Neither drive is giving me problems. However, hard drives are notorious for mechanical wear and tear and the rule of thumb seems to be maybe an average of 5 years for the life-span of a hard drive.
Should I continue using these drives? Or move their data somewhere else and just throw the hard drives away? ( what's the point in keeping the drives if they are going to die soon anyway? )