- Timothy Burlee from Secure Data Recovery tested 2,007 broken HDDs from six manufacturers--Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, and Maxtor.
- Toshiba came out on top with an average lifespan of 34,799 hours and Hitachi finished dead last.
- Western Digital and Seagate HDDs clocked in around the mid-20,000-hour ranges, while Samsung scored at just over 19,000 hours, barely better than Hitachi.
