Hard drive failure is probabalistic. You're just one data point. There are plenty of people who have seen a moderate number of drive failures, and some people who have so many drives fail that you have to check that they aren't tapping them with a magnet for good luck or something.
Not believing in hard drive failure because you haven't had any, despite the rest of the word telling you it's a fact of life... well, it says something interesting about human psychology, is all.
Sure I believe in hard drive failures. I'm not saying that hard drives don't fail, I'm just providing my experience with hard drive failure. Where did you get the idea that I don't believe in hard drive failure?
I realize that I'm just one data point. What I don't get is why people downvote me for providing this data point, whereas people don't seem to have a problem with blanket statements like "HDDs do fail, too. A lot." that provide zero data points.
Moreover we are talking about SSDs vs HDDs here. "HDDs do fail, too. A lot." may be true, but if according to Jeff Atwood, a SSD proponent, on the order of half of SSDs fail in the first year then HDDs may fail a lot, but SSDs fail a whole lot more.
Not believing in hard drive failure because you haven't had any, despite the rest of the word telling you it's a fact of life... well, it says something interesting about human psychology, is all.