Hardware.fr published an article giving the failure rates of many components used in computing by analysing the database of a large French retailer. The chapter which interests us most is that devoted to the hard drives.
As always, there are large differences not only between the manufacturers, but also between the various models. Without surprise, Seagate is fallen due to the problems encountered with the firmware a few months ago, this marque, and her little sister in the same group remains at the bottom with nearly 2,8% of returns. Samsung with its SpinPoint T of 500 GB wins the prize of the least reliable disc w
