Dormancy of HDD is 2 years

[Corzhens]

Is this correct that the hard disk has a dormancy period of 2 years? It means that a hard disk that is not accessed for 2 years may be expired with the contents corrupted. I had read it in a post in social media that we should access the external hard disk at least once a year to avoid being dormant for 2 years.

 

[Steve Jobs]

No, that is not true at all.

 

[Page]

HDD can last allot longer then that. Put another 8 years on top of your two years

 

[RH-Calvin]

I won't agree to this as I have a couple of 500GB SATA drives from my old machine and I usually use them as an external backups.

 

[lunorian]

Where did you hear that highly incorrect information?