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What's Your Longest Lasting HDD?

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80gb hitachi hdd from 2006.
lasted till this year until i accidently kicked it off my bed while sleeping.
not it makes weird crunchy noises :(

so much good p0rn on that drive.....
 
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I'm still using two 250 GB Barracudas (RAID0) purchased in I think June of 2005. No, I won't take pictures because then I'd have to turn my computer off.
I have two Barracuda 7200.10 250GB drives that I purchased new around the same time that have been powered on nearly 24/7 for many, many years. Finally went offline when I built sig rig. I'll power them up and see if I can get power up hours values off of them. Very reliable drives for me.
 
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Two pics for nostalgia. My mistake it is a 2GB hard drive not a 1GB as mentioned earlier.

 
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all of them are in a working state and are used in some of the rigs in my Sys Specs

from my K6-2 build:
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from a PIII Dell Optiplex Gx
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from my Athlon Xp build (still in use in a AXP build)
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and from a P4 build (still in use in the server or in the AXP rig)
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I can't get pics because the pc was that old it got chucked out but i did have a pc here that was so old it had 128MB's ram an old nvidia vanta GPU and had windows ME on it and i think the drive was like 20gig at most and untill i chucked it away it was still working fine and the drive showed no errors.
 

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the H.D. contains too many photos and memories to destroy and it still functions with a SATA adapter.
Why don't you copy the files to more permanent storage? You can then let go of that drive (after first wiping it). At least make sure you have a minimum of two copies of those files or you'll lose them for certain.
 
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I need to take a picture of my working 486 system with its 250mb hdd
 

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My oldest HD ever was abut 5 years old when I had a HP elitebook 2510p laptop. It was a 1.8 inch HD 120gb 4200rpm. I upgrade to a new laptop, gave that one to my ex gf's sister and she destroyed it within 2 months. I had that laptop for 4 years, built like a tank and she it did within 2 months. Last last thing I will ever give away. Could gave gotten at least $50 on ebay for it.

Gods I hate those drives. So slow, but the computer itself is very nice.

Most hours I dunno. I have a 80GB drive from an office computer that has many hours on it, but they're not my hours. As for years ... probably no more than two. Every year I go through a life crisis and decide to get rid of all my computers. Rince, repeat.
 

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I retired my samsung F1 1TB i bought back in like 07 i think when it was released it had someware over 45k hours. I loved that drive.
 
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Gods I hate those drives. So slow, but the computer itself is very nice.

Most hours I dunno. I have a 80GB drive from an office computer that has many hours on it, but they're not my hours. As for years ... probably no more than two. Every year I go through a life crisis and decide to get rid of all my computers. Rince, repeat.
It was very slow but I could not upgrade it anymore. It had a special connector that I dont know the name of it. I remember the write speeds tests on it, it read about 22-25mb per sec. I loved the long battery life and tank quality built. I upgraded to a 2560p that is still in the closet. I will sell it one day.
 
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I still have some old school Barracuda drives that where removed from an old EMC Clariion RAID server.
barracuda1.jpg barracuda2.jpg HD snake.jpg
 
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My longest running one right now is a WD 2TB Green, just looked it has a runtime of 26281 hrs on it. Its in my file server, so that pretty much non-stop run time. For disclosure, it was off and not running for about 3 weeks while I moved from TX to CA.
 
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i've had 4GB drive with celeron 333 (year 1997). almost for 10 years and then gave my computer away i know it worked several years more.
 
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Longest running one in my PC right now is a WD5000AAKS (500gb) drive. 56018 hours, 596 power on counts. I think this is a drive I got second hand, but not sure...

Next is my Samsung HD501LJ 500gb with 39200 hours and 425 power on counts.

My SSD that I bought when I built this PC has 23404 on it, Kingston SH103S3240G 240gb. 105 power on counts.
 
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Hmm, I don't really know as far as operating hours, the ones (WD scorpio 500GB) in my GT60 could be some of the most used, that thing has been on for ~12h/d for 31 months (adds up to around 12k hours), however my pair of old 250GB drives (one ?Seagate? and one WD) are older (7 years now) but saw much less use in that period, probably only around 9k, one of them (the WD) is still running fine as boot drive for my brother's gaming rig (he is starting to wonder why it boots so slowly, 50MB/s FTW) but it is 100% healthy. The other is a spare drive I have laying around which sometimes is used for bench rigs.

I am actually looking to sell that laptop, but am a bit hesitant of keeping to those two heavily used drives in it, especially since they have been bumped around quite a bit too.

Fun fact, I ran those Scorpios at 4500m altitude while I was travelling in the north of Chile
 
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My question to you is, what has been your longest serving Hard Drive? Can you beat a HDD working for 10 years solid?

I have that EXACT same drive and it's still kicking. It's now the OS drive in my second rig. No hammer bashing though ;)
 
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An old Maxtor 850MB HDD, it still works the last time I went home and power up my ancient 486. Pretty amazing that it still works~
 
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