30k hours and it's still going

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Guilty-Owl8539@reddit

I have some wd raptors with 98k+ hours on them that I pulled from my proxmox host a few months back. They weren't barfing errors or dropping out of zpools but without doing a surface scan I can't say how healthy they are. Power cycle counts on them were in the 60s or 70s...

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International-Pen940@reddit

I have an IBM 5150 (upgraded with a hard drive controller) that still boots off a Seagate ST-225 drive, no idea how many hours on it but I guess it’s about 40 years old. It gets a little temperamental from time to time.

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MWink64@reddit

You likely have (or had) a bad SATA cable.

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aaaanoon@reddit

Spinning disks have such a bad reputation and get openly mocked on tech channels but in my 30 years of computing I haven't had one drive fail. Maybe I'm just incredibly lucky but I still use them in the latest system builds.

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timfountain4444@reddit

I've had plenty fail. It's mechanical. It will fail...

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fireseker236@reddit

Agree i have various discs with 50k hours and one with 87k hrs western digital caviar green 1tb None fails

That's the trend these days. Destroying HDDs when they still have plenty to offer. I haven't seen the first SSD that's more than 10 years old; they don't seem durable over time to me. Ssd has very sensitive with voltage fluctations or drops ..

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canthearu_ack@reddit

I've got a 60gig sandforce 2 SSD with over 100,000 hours on it. Is that old enough for you.

I've had very few SSDs actually fail .... maybe 1 or 2 over the course of the last 15 years. I've had more stolen from me than fail!

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fireseker236@reddit

Oh cool, the only SSDs I've seen that last are the Samsung ones. For example: I have a client who installed one in his laptop in 2017 (840 Evo). It's still good. The rest develop problems in about 5 years. Especially the cheaper ones. Adata, timetec etc

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canthearu_ack@reddit

The only SSD I've really had go bad is an original Sandforce SSDs ...

I also had problems with a crucial MX300 ssd which had bit fade issues like the preupdate 840 evo. Firmware update and a wipe fixed the MX300.

Regarding samsung SSDs, I have a few older ones here (PM841) .... that were in service in dell desktops for some odd 12 years or so. One of them has accumulated considerable wear ... down to 32% or so NAND condition. The other two are still 75-80%. This is actually the worst wear I've seen on any production SSD that I wasn't deliberately trying to kill.

My 60gig Sandforce 2 drive is a silicon power drive ... with 116875 hours on it, with 89% life left.

My oldest NVME is a Samsung 950 PRO 512gb ... with 66711 hours and 97% life left.

I actually have a whole pile of smaller SSD (256gb and less) drives in storage, there simply because they are too small to use in my modern computers, and not mechanical enough to use in most of my retro computers.

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canthearu_ack@reddit

I've had plenty of hard drives die.

I've also seen SSDs die as well.

You see some of everything when you get exposed to as much technology as I do.

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URA_CJ@reddit

Both of my Western Digital 80GB failed, the first one was sudden and I suspect that the controller is at fault (my only case of data loss), the second lasted longer and I don't recall any problems with it when it was still being used, but when I tried using it for my P4 rebuild it was already going bad after sitting in storage.

Now my Seagate ST1000 is still going, it's power on hours rolled over but I estimate that it's close to 85k hour mark.

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shotsallover@reddit

They either failed right out of the box or three years later a few hours before your needed to finish a big project.

I’ve done a lot of data recovery on spinning drives. Most of it trying to get it off before it failed completely. But honestly, it was probably only one or two out of 400 per year that failed.

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campingskeeter@reddit

Most all disks I had back in the day 5GB and under failed. Anything newer though is still going to this day.

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bobnla14@reddit

Three WD Red server drives in a 5 drive synology. One after another about 3 weeks apart.

Replaced all 5 after the third one failed.

No data loss because of RAID.

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CurrentOk1811@reddit

I've got disks over 50k hours swill working. I've also got a bunch of disks showing errors which I've semi-retired to use as backups and a bunch of disks which are dead. In the last 20 years I've bought well over 50 disks, with 1/3 of them dead or showing errors.

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fireseker236@reddit

It's nothing i have HDD with 87000 hours of use Wéstern digital caviar green 1tb

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Silver_Pharaoh001@reddit

There's a Samsung 80Gb IDE at work with over 138k hours on it.

Still running as I type!

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AdventurousEye8894@reddit

I have hdd with 60k, still alive and kickin':)

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needtoknowbasisonly@reddit

30,000 Hours is about 3.4 years of continuous run time. In a server environment that isn't all that long. We have drives at my company that have been in continuous operation for over 15 years which is about 130K hours. Unless that drive starts reporting a lot smart errors, you can basically treat it like its brand new. Just don't let it get overly hot as that will decrease it's life quite a bit.

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driverdan@reddit

How is this vintage? It's a modern SATA drive with 3.3 years of power on time.

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Low-Charge-8554@reddit

Yep - probably not vintage. There is a manufacture date on it probably somewhere around 2015, 2016

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HiddenMacchine@reddit (OP)

I read the date code on it, 2012, still a new guy here compared to the other comments.

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HiddenMacchine@reddit (OP)

I thought it was a bit old having 30k hours, but as I read the other comments I now know this is brand new in comparison.

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aussiepunkrocksV2-0@reddit

The only hard disk I've ever had go bad was an IBM DeathStar 75GXP.

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HiddenMacchine@reddit (OP)

Hahahaha the death stars, I've a newer one but it's from the IBM sold the brand to Hitachi, that one is still good.

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Routine_Helicopter47@reddit

I raise you my laptop's WD Black 750 gig with 50k hours
https://ibb.co/0RmNBVzx

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TygerTung@reddit

I've got a hard drive with 12 years uptime on it, still works perfect.

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utopiaman99@reddit

This is only ~3.5 years...

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Materidan@reddit

I’ve had a HP MediaSmart server running since 2009, and it still has the stock Seagate 500gb drive in it… pretty sure that’s about 140,000 power on hours and counting!

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King0fFud@reddit

That’s crazy, I actually have this same drive sitting in a cupboard and I believe it works but at least one of its larger siblings (1.0 or 1.5TB) does not.

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This-Requirement6918@reddit

Typical Seagate. Nothing to see here, at least I've had the same kind of luck with batches for the most part.

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nourish_the_bog@reddit

For this drive, I'd sooner look at the power on count. This drive's been in a machine that's likely turned on every day for 6 hours and then powered down again, those spinups start becoming a more important factor in my experience. At 3 1/3 year total power on time it's not anywhere near "could fail any minute" mode, not with S.M.A.R.T. giving it a good bill of health. You can still use it, but would you want to? The power consumption per GB is abysmal and getting a larger drive to compensate, even second hand, stands to make a good upgrade anyway.

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HiddenMacchine@reddit (OP)

I think I'll get a newer bigger SSD, I've way too many drives that are old and are starting to degrade, this was is the worst case(in hours), I'm gonna use it for the time being but only for retro games that I don't care about.

I'll get something better soon.

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