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 According
to an article that I came across, a study made by Google in 2007
which looked at the life span of its own hard disks, found that one in 14 drives older than two years failed during any given year.
That is a 7% failure rate for hard drives with a
service life of two years. Not a good statistic
if you think about it.
According to the article, backing up with CD is
not also much of a reliable option as:
"CD failure rates are all over the board, and scratches, extreme heat and exposure to strong sunlight can hasten the process."
Bill Husted, who wrote the article noted that in a perfect world, a CD-RW will last about 30 years, according to
a study. However, upon further checking, he
found a wide variance in predicted life span.
Husted goes on to say that:
"No backup system is perfect. But even an imperfect system puts you miles ahead of folks who don't make backups at all."
So backup your computer no matter what.
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