We’ve always banged on about the misconception that new IT equipment is more reliable than refurbished and the survey we’re about to show you proves at least that one component certainly isn’t more reliable.
It’s fairly common knowledge in the IT industry that you can expect roughly 5% or less manufacturer failure rate on the IT hardware you within the 1st year.
This survey was published by a large cloud storage company which tested over 40,000 hard drives shows that actually the failure rate is significantly higher.
If you’d like to view the full report you can get this here