
4 May
2016
4 May
'16
1:46 a.m.
It used to be that warranties for hard drives were for some specified number of years, it didn’t matter how much load they were under (compare SSDs). But it seems that is now changing, as capacities are pushed to the point where ever more creative strategies are needed to get the devices to work at all <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/03/when_did_hard_drives_get_workload_rate_limits/>.