Hard Drive Failure Rate

[Shaduf]

Lee Holbein keeps stressing the necessity to back up our computers and I wouldn't argue with that.
His reasoning is a bit suspect however. He now regularly uses scare tactics by saying "The failure rate of all Hard Drives is 100%"

It is a fact that the failure rate of almost anything is 100% in that everything will fail eventually and non more so than us mere humans.

So what he suggests is that we protect ourselves by buying his product. And what's that?
The Clickfree C6 Software Backup HARD DRIVE. Presumably that Hard Drive will never fail?

Shaduf

 

[Simon Sims]

I heard Lee say that and thought the same.
Some drives do fail prematurely and some last many years. I was always told never to trust a hard drive after about 3 years and that is why everyone should back up.

The fute is solid state drives, which have no moving parts for things to go wrong, but at present they are still cost prohibitive.
Maybe in a few years we will all be using them.