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Hard Drives don't fail that way. Hard drives fail in other ways, so "writes per day" is simply irrelevant to the hard drive market.

Hard Drives fail because of vibration, broken motors, and things like that. MTBF is the typical metric for hard drives. There are also errors that pop up if data sits still too long (on the order of years), because the magnetic field loses its charge over time.




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