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What's Your Longest Lasting HDD?

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On what is a very sad day for us at the office, I have decided to run a thread in the honour of my WD2500 Caviar SE 250GB HDD that died today after 10 years of undaunted service in our spare office machine. He has seen many HDD's plugged in beside him, Secure Erased and bashed to death with a 12 pound hammer, but never wavered in his duty as loyal spare.



My question to you is, what has been your longest serving Hard Drive? Can you beat a HDD working for 10 years solid?

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I still have a box full of working 80-100mb IBM hard drives in the shed. I dont use them for obvious reasons.

::EDIT::

My longest serving has to be an old 300GB Maxtor IDE that i have in a external caddy that ive had since before 2005
 
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Up til about 2 years ago i have 500gb AAKS wd drive i used for OS, had 5 years powered on time. Not 1 bad cluster or sector on the drive. Only down side it was a tad slow given the drive was good 6 years old at the time.
 
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5.25" Quantum Bigfoot that's about 25 years old. 8.4 Gb. Still works. Its was only running for about 6 years I think

But the question should "what is the most hours on a drive" . I've had one Samsung 1 Tb drive I ran for 42,000 hours

Can you read the hours off the drive? RCoon

 
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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'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.

In terms of 24/7 operation, the longest is a 250 GB Barracuda in my server operating since I believe 2006 or 2007 (70,000+ hours by my estimation). No, I won't take pictures of it because then I'd have to turn my server off. :p


I have a Gateway 2000 here with a Quantum Fireball (I think). It hasn't seen much use in the last decade so...doesn't really count.

Any drives older than that got recycled, including a Seagate 2x5.25" bay 1 GB SCSI drive. I wish I kept that thing. It was a museum piece. Funny thing is, that drive most likely still worked but I wanted to reinstall Windows 95 and couldn't find drivers for its controller card. I gave up and sent the whole tower to recycling, drive and controller included.
 
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A 1GB Western Digital that still has Windows95 installed on it, made in 1997.
In the modern age a Western Digital 80GB ATA(cant rememeber the model ATM) from about 2004.
But on the downside two 1TB WD Green drives failed me in the last 5 years, the moral of the story is ... backup.
 
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One of my Samsung F3s rolled over 25,000 power-on hours today. Bought it in September 2009.

I assume my oldest hard drive is a 900MB but I have no idea if it still works.
 
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I like my WD blues (2x 500GB + 1x 1TB) 1 platter drives. The older of the two 500GB drives has 31300 hours and the younger 22800 hours. Both are still running - hope the 1TB I bough about a year back will turn out that good too.
 
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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.
 
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oldest working is a wb black 40gb which is about 12 years old i think?

idk i will check the numbers later when i need to go out to the shed where it lives as my shed pc drive. not in use atm as that pc is lacking a psu.
 

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In my NAS/Gateway two of my 3x1TB drives have 41k power-on hours. One is a WD green the other is a Hitachi Deskstar, there is a third Hitachi with 37k hours on it and they all still work fine to this day. The 500GB drive in my main tower also has 37k hours on it which is a Seagate Barracuda ES.2 I think.

Performance is still okay as well:
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$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 294 MB in  3.05 seconds =  96.40 MB/sec
$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 330 MB in  3.02 seconds = 109.40 MB/sec
$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 224 MB in  3.01 seconds =  74.44 MB/sec

The last one is the WD green which has always been slower than the other two, even when it was brand new.

Side note: GSmartControl is probably one of the best SMART utilities you can use that works on multiple OS' since it uses smartmontools under the hood.
 
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I had an Western digital 250 GB IDE drive serve me well since 2006 till a couple of month ago. It will boot up the system but after some time there is a click and it seems the platters just stop spinning and the Pc freezes up. Even when it was working it's health was 100% but the performance tab was sometimes 70-80% so I had to replace it.
 

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Still using 2 WD 250GB HDD's and all so have a few old Seagate one's from back when i used to buy them, if i find time i will dig'em up.

But here's one of the WD250's
 

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My oldest continuous use HDD are 2 (two) 150GB WD Raptors (not velociraptors) from 2007 in 2 different computers. I can't give pics right now as it would require some minor disassembly, but I could possibly get to it this weekend.
 
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I have a 500GB Seagate 7200.12 that I got used in 2009, and a Seagate External 160GB drive I got in 2007 IIRC. Both are working perfectly.
 

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I had a 40GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 I bought new that lasted ~9 years 6 months(daily use). I've got another 200GB DiamondMax 10 that's still going strong, with a man. date Nov. 28 2005. But I bought that one used, so I don't know how long it's really been ran for.

Sorry no pics of the dead one. I just recently hauled off all my old broken hardware. I'm pretty sure I still have the retail box for it though. I'm a semi-hoarder. Trying not to be.

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Then I've also got a Samsung SpinPoint 80GB from 03/03 that my neighbor just gave me(in an ancient P4 system). It seems to work fine. Again, no idea on how much use it's really had though.
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Sod Moore's law seems Murphys law is better
it seems to me that the older a drive is the more reliable it was
New Drives just do not have the reliability they should have

Once upon a time the drive you bought was only replaced because it lacked capacity
thats was the Main reason for Drive upgrade

These Days Drive replacement ""Seems to be driven by Hardware failure""
 

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@RCoon I read your OP and burst into tears. :oops: Ok, not really, but I did haz a sad, lolcat style.

Well, my contender would have been my trusty 8GB Samsung SV0844A HDD that i bought in 1999. I say this due to the abuse it received from my occasional cack-handed handling. It's been dropped, banged and generally knocked about quite hard - and all while it was running. In that time only once or twice did it temporarily throw up an error and re-sync, but then just carried on like nothing had happened. That was one tough drive, I can tell you. Samsung built this thing like a tank. :cool:

Unfortunately, that all came to an end when my flat was burgled in 2009, where various things were stolen, including this drive which was in my shoebox full of classic hard drives, some 20 years old. They included things like Connor 60MB laptop drives, 100MB Seagates and other obsolete weird and wonderful drives that I can't even remember now. Bastards. :nutkick:I'm still really pissed about it to this day, especially about that HDD which had real sentimental value for me.
 
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Most of the old IDE drives I had got dismantled and the platters frisbee'd into a bin and the magnets played with for a while (tip, don't use them as fridge magnets, they are bastards to remove) I still have an old '05 Hitachi TravelStar 60Gb from an old Acer lappy I sold off, the H.D. contains too many photos and memories to destroy and it still functions with a SATA adapter.
 
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