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Whats the averaage life of a laptop hard drive?

  • 11-06-2008 10:07pm
    #1
    IrishHomer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,973 ✭✭✭


    Folks,

    My 4yr old laptop hard drive needs replacing according to Dell call center and i am just curious to know "Whats the averaage life of a laptop hard drive?":confused:


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  • #2
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,385 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    My dads laptop was bought over 4 years ago. As far as I know its working grand. Not used to excessivly now though. Got a new one there about a year ago.

    My old laptop was about 3 years old when it packed it in, but after replacing everything possible, the cause of its death still aludes us all.

    Needless to say, ive spare ram and Hard drive for it now.... i think. They might be resurecting a different laptop now.
    They grow up so fast!

    Oh, and my GFs laptop is prob about 5 years old and going strong, all original parts.

    Why do dell think it needs replacing??


  • #3
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Its a man made item,can fail at any time.
    Saying that theres a pc at home with windows 95 on it,never had one issue with the pc or any of its components.Its about 12 years old.


  • #4
    IrishHomer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,973 ✭✭✭IrishHomer


    Dell got me to run some tests on it over the phone and the tests showed 3 problems on the hard disk.

    They are sending me out the XP and system restore cd's as i lost my originals.

    If a restore doesn't fix it then they reckon i need a new hard disk. It's a 4yr old Dell Inspiron 6000 and it gets a huge amount of use.

    Last week it was getting very slow and then when i would go online it would make a noise like a machine gun and would keep doing so and it also would usually crash.

    I spent 45minutes on the Dell helpline yesterday scared to see my next phone bill :confused:


  • #5
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    Hard drives are one of those components that last 1 week to 10 years, although the former is a rarity. Laptop hard drives are a different beast as they are subject to a different environment in the fact that they get moved about a bit. If the laptop has been moved a lot while powered on, then the changes of failure are a lot higher.

    Either way if the hard disk report has thrown up errors, then its best to replace ASAP.


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