
Gillware is a leading data recovery company and our expert engineers diagnose, repair, and recover countless numbers of failed hard drives every single year. This could mean that over 6 million hard drives fail every year (and that is a conservative estimate).Ī 2% failure rate may not sound like much, and to be fair, it does help to highlight how hard disk drive failure rates have improved in the last twenty years, but that figure still suggests that 6 million people may be affected, that is a huge number of clients that may have lost business-critical data, treasured family photographs or years of higher education course work.

An estimated 300 million=+hard drives are sold every 12 months, and the failure rates are usually around 2%. The world’s desire for data storage is growing exponentially, and the number of HDD in the consumer market is staggering. Hard disk drives are everywhere they are found in computers, laptops, servers, storage arrays, DVR, game consoles, and even TVs.
