Hard Drive Life Expectancy

Why hard drives fail, and how to extend their life expectancy, including a range of free utilities for HDD care. This video is a follow-up to my previous show on SSD Life Expectancy:    • SSD Life Expectancy   Links to the utilities shown in the video are as follows. I have no connection to any of the involved organizations. WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows (also SMART utility): https://support.wdc.com/downloads.asp... Open Hardware Monitor (for monitoring temperatures): http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ CrystalDiskInfo (SMART utility): http://crystalmark.info/software/Crys... HD Tune (SMART utility): http://www.hdtune.com/ Hard Disk Sentinel (SMART utility): https://www.hdsentinel.com/ DiskFresh (data fade prevention): http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFres... More videos on computing-related topics can be found at:    / explainingcomputers   You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at:    / explainingthefuture