As hard drive capacities have surged, the risk of failure has gotten more severe, since one disk can conceivably contain every photo, e-mail, video and document you've created over the course of a decade.

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The drive contains no moving parts, decreasing the risk of data loss due to shock and vibration, and its mean time between failure (MTBF)4 greatly exceeds that of hard disk drives, giving users peace of mind that it will retain their files for the long term.

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Failure by Microsoft to warn purchasers that the use of Windows may cause disk fragmentation.

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