Wondrous Hard Drives But the advance of technology over the years has forced the computer hard drive to change form and speed. Today, all consumers, be it a personal user or a commercial enterprise, use the hard drive in some form or the other. In 1989, Disklabs launched an initiative to educate the consumer about the hard drive. The culmination of this effort can be listed in the features of a hard drive:
- Physically robust
- Large storage space
- Reliable
- Lends itself to archiving
- Has a finite lifespan of three?five years but can be stretched to six-eight years with proper maintenance