{"id":4721,"date":"2022-02-11T19:36:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/most-hard-drives-have-a-lifespan-of-three-to-five-years-have-you-checked-yours-lately\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:36:36","slug":"most-hard-drives-have-a-lifespan-of-three-to-five-years-have-you-checked-yours-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/most-hard-drives-have-a-lifespan-of-three-to-five-years-have-you-checked-yours-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old drives often contain precious memories, but to keep them you have to maintain them. Here\u2019s what the experts say about how to do it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/series\/saved-for-later?CMP=cvau_sfl\">listen to our podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> If you\u2019re anything like me, you probably have a bunch of hard drives sitting at the back of a seldom-used drawer somewhere in your home. They likely contain an assortment of photos and videos, important (and not-so-important) documents, old laptop back-ups, and music, TV and movie files.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you intend to sort through them, keeping the good stuff and discarding the chaff. But perhaps that exercise feels a bit boring and overwhelming, so it keeps being relegated to the endless tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/12\/most-hard-drives-have-a-lifespan-of-three-to-five-years-have-you-checked-yours-lately\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6aacaf94def4b6ff045c47a7f8abe6968928fb8b\/0_605_4032_2419\/master\/4032.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3230ee34dc7293c99bc79206a12674c0\" title=\"Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately?\" \/>Old drives often contain precious memories, but to keep them you have to maintain them. Here\u2019s what the experts say about how to do it<\/p>\n<p>Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast<\/p>\n<p> If you\u2019re anything like me, you probably have a bunch of hard drives sitting at the back of a seldom-used drawer somewhere in your home. They likely contain an assortment of photos and videos, important (and not-so-important) documents, old laptop back-ups, and music, TV and movie files.<br \/>\nMaybe you intend to sort through them, keeping the good stuff and discarding the chaff. But perhaps that exercise feels a bit boring and overwhelming, so it keeps being relegated to the endless tomorrow. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old drives often contain precious memories, but to keep them you have to maintain them. Here\u2019s what the experts say about how to do it Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast If you\u2019re anything like me, you probably have a bunch of hard drives sitting at the back of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/most-hard-drives-have-a-lifespan-of-three-to-five-years-have-you-checked-yours-lately\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}