software to estimate lifespan of hdd.

[daz]

Hello
I have been wondering if there is some software to measure lifespan left for hard drives ei its' sectors not damaged and some general informations that could heal estimate if there is a time for replacement.

P.S currently I have 5 HDD, and failure of any of them would be disastrous for me:)

Regards
Daz

 

[Sniper]

Personally, I backup to Amazon S3, costs just over $1 per month to backup 10Gb, something to look into maybe?

I don't think theres any reliable way but hard drives do have MTBF but never really understood what it all meant. Checkout

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBF
• http://www.samsung.com/global/busin...pers/LearningResource_OverallReliability.html
• http://www.neowin.net/news/study-hard-drive-mtbf-ratings-highly-exaggerated

The only suggestion I can make is to; backup, backup, backup :)