How can I test that a Hard Drive is good for at least 5 years..?

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How can I test that a Hard Drive is good for at least 5 years without having to wait 5 years...

and there will be constant writing and reading to it....

Is this possible??

Thanks
 
You can only depend on the drive manufacturer's testing and track record.
If your data is very important and the system must not fail, then you should use a RAID array of 4 drives with data redundancy, if one of the drives fails, you can replace it without losing any data.
Reads and writes are also faster on such a system, they are often used in video production systems(not too many aplications will work a drive harder than reading and writing video data) Since it is much less likely that all the drives will fail at once, unless they are struck by lightening without a power conditioner/ lightening protector, this provides a much more fail-safe system.
 
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