What is the oldest piece of continually running hardware you currently use with your rig?

[Rock N Roll Rebel]

I did have some Logitech g51 speakers got some new speakers Logitech z906 my x-wife has the g51 now they are 12 years old and still going strong

 

[Rickkins]

Gotta be my Xfi Titanium sound card...

 

[ebivan]

I have an old WD Green 2TB in there, that is 9 or 10 years old. Got some backups of backups and some music on it, because ssd is still to expansive for that kind of data...

 

[Hyderz]

i7 6700k

 

[lemoncarbonate]

Ryzen 2700 x

Ryzen 1700X for me, and basically my whole PC with Sapphire RX 480 8GB, almost 4 year old.
EVGA 750 G2 died in 10 months, replaced with G3, still running strong.

1080 Ti upgrade is on the way, hopefully next week.

I have an old WD Green 2TB in there, that is 9 or 10 years old. Got some backups of backups and some music on it, because ssd is still to expansive for that kind of data...

How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

 

[lexluthermiester]

While I shared these pictures in another thread, they fit in here as well.
The mice are custom painted and are nearly 20 years old.

 

[Jetster]

How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

Because Chrystal disk warnings can be wrong, especially with Seagate. Use Seagate's software. Has to do with Seagate's firmware and how it marks sectors for remapping

 

[Athlonite]

How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

that's an issue with those particular seagate HDD's the 2TB and 4TB ones don't have the issue of dying young and I also have a 2TB WD green in an Elements USB drive case that's been going for quite a few years now (atleast 8) which has surprised the shit out of me what with all the stories of peoples WD Greens dying left right and center

 

[djisas]

These, a couple of tt fans, probably 15+ yo, they served me well, and a cm red led 80mm fan that was never as good.
Getting rid of these allowed me to finally disable the equally old hardcano 3 fan controller. Upgrading to noctua fans and cleaning up the cable mess.

 

[zenlaserman]

I have a pair of machines with 2007-era Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboards. They have i975X chipsets and support Pentium 4, were the first Intel motherboard to support Core 2 Quads. I have QX6800 in one and Q6700 in the other. They still run top notch, hands-down most rock-solid motherboard I have ever dealt with in 25 years of tinkering. In one of those machines I have an X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI soundcard from 2005. It was advertised as being equivalent to a Pentium 4 3.2GHz for sound processing. It still sounds great and it gets used a lot.

Stepping back, I have a rig I built in 2000 as an XP/DOS rig. It has a Pentium 3 1GHz and an All-In-Wonder X800XT video card. This rig still runs, TV tuner still works, it's a decent emulation rig as it can play most MAME games without trouble. What's funny is old consoles can connect to PC since it has coaxial cable input. Emulate while you play the real thing, I guess. I like my old shit.

Edit: drives. I have 4x WD 500GB AAKS drives that all went bad at the same time last month. They all dated from 2007 and were fine up until one reboot. Then one error after another, just finished replacing them. I have a Seagate 1.5TB and WD 1TB Black that work fine, 10 years old. I have a 2016 Seagate 3GB that went wonky after a year. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it acts up. SMART never tells me anything but Aok. For me it's always been hit-or-miss with Seagate, I try to stick with WD for spinners. Can usually get a solid 10 years out of em.

 

[Frick]

How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

Different drives. My WD Blues are from 2013 and are just chugging along.

 

[Ruru]

Probably my keyboard as it has those older Vista/7 type Windows keys. Also my wheel (Driving Force GT) seems to be released back in 2007.

 

[lexluthermiester]

These, a couple of tt fans, probably 15+ yo, they served me well, and a cm red led 80mm fan that was never as good.
Getting rid of these allowed me to finally disable the equally old hardcano 3 fan controller. Upgrading to noctua fans and cleaning up the cable mess.
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Fans are serviceable. Take the label and rubber stopper off the back, add a drop of a quality synthetic oil or a bit of high temp gear grease and seal it back up.

 

[Mussels]

Fans are serviceable. Take the label and rubber stopper off the back, add a drop of a quality synthetic oil or a bit of high temp gear grease and seal it back up.

unless they're like the PSU fan i did where it exploded across the floor moments after it got oiled

 

[lexluthermiester]

unless they're like the PSU fan i did where it exploded across the floor moments after it got oiled

Wow! Never seen that happen before...

 

[djisas]

Fans are serviceable. Take the label and rubber stopper off the back, add a drop of a quality synthetic oil or a bit of high temp gear grease and seal it back up.

Cool, but already replaced them all, and i. Wanted to get rid of the cable mess the fans and controller cause, it was impossible to do any sort of cable management inside my case...

 

[micropage7]

Quadro FX580

The oldest part of my main rig is, without a doubt, the chassis.

hahaa, yea i still use case from Pentium 4 era

 

[plat]

My Founders Edition GTX 1080. It runs very well but its days are numbered with the rtx 3070 on the horizon.

 

[lexluthermiester]

hahaa, yea i still use case from Pentium 4 era

Hey, if it works it works. There's no shame in keeping something you like and works well.

My Founders Edition GTX 1080. It runs very well but its days are numbered with the rtx 3070 on the horizon.

That's the oldest piece of hardware you have? Damn!

 

[lemoncarbonate]

Because Chrystal disk warnings can be wrong, especially with Seagate. Use Seagate's software. Has to do with Seagate's firmware and how it marks sectors for remapping

I actually checked crystal disk after encountered multiple un-copy-able files in my hdd. Seagate's software said my hdd is healthy

that's an issue with those particular seagate HDD's the 2TB and 4TB ones don't have the issue of dying young and I also have a 2TB WD green in an Elements USB drive case that's been going for quite a few years now (atleast 8) which has surprised the shit out of me what with all the stories of peoples WD Greens dying left right and center

I didn't know about this specific issue. I switched to WD Blue 4TB right away after that.
My luck is so bad with seagate's drives.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I actually checked crystal disk after encountered multiple un-copy-able files in my hdd. Seagate's software said my hdd is healthy

Then you have a problem beyond your hard drive, very likely a software issue. HDD's are not very complex devices. As general rule, they either work fine or they don't. The only exception I have seen to that rule is a drive that is on the bleeding edge of death and that usually doesn't last long.

I didn't know about this specific issue. I switched to WD Blue 4TB right away after that.
My luck is so bad with seagate's drives.

That was likely a good idea. Have you troubleshot the drive further?

 

[Valantar]

Then you have a problem beyond your hard drive, very likely a software issue. HDD's are not very complex devices. As general rule, they either work fine or they don't. The only exception I have seen to that rule is a drive that is on the bleeding edge of death and that usually doesn't last long.

They can act weird though. I had an old 2TB WD Green that on the surface worked perfectly, only it delivered read speeds around ~150KB/s. Consistently. I am very, very glad that it was part of a mirrored Storage Space, as I could then swap it out without spending something like half a year copying data from it.

 

[cornemuse]

Dont know just how old it is but my sandisk cruzer mini 128 meg thumb drive. Use it several times weekly to store recipes.

 

[djisas]

I actually checked crystal disk after encountered multiple un-copy-able files in my hdd. Seagate's software said my hdd is healthy



I didn't know about this specific issue. I switched to WD Blue 4TB right away after that.
My luck is so bad with seagate's drives.

Out of almost 20 HDD, most of which seagates, 1 seagete 500GB was doa with smoke and all, and 1 320GB, both where made in china, thailand drives where fine, though 2 500GB drives had bad sectors already when I got rid of them. 2 WD drives lasted forever until sold...

 

[Ruru]

Dont know just how old it is but my sandisk cruzer mini 128 meg thumb drive. Use it several times weekly to store recipes.

I remember my uncle having a 16MB USB drive. That was like in 2003 or something.