Post your hard drive Power On hours!

Currently running:
Samsung 840 PRO with 44,521 hours.
Samsung 850 EVO with 29,493 hours.

My computer rarely gets turned off, so that's just about the age of the drives.
 
nnnnnnnecro!

No point in making an identical thread. Decided to check my oldest drive for shits and giggles.

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On the HP Z840:

2639 hrs: HP Z-Drive 512GB (NVMe via PCIe)
2698 hrs: Micron M600 512GB (SATA)
2699 hrs: Micron M600 512GB (SATA)
19640 hrs: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (SATA)
27990 hrs: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (SATA)
1164 hrs: Toshiba Canvio 4TB (USB 3)
1502 hrs: Toshiba Canvio 4TB (USB 3)
1139 hrs: Toshiba Canvio 4TB (USB 3)
1263 hrs: Toshiba Canvio 4TB (USB 3)
 
On the Dell Optiplex 990 SFF:

73158 hrs: WD Blue 640GB (SATA)
34537 hrs: WD My Passport 3TB (USB)
23794 hrs: WD My Passport 3TB (USB)
35033 hrs: Hitachi Touro 1TB (USB)

Have 2 x WD My Passport 4TB (USB) that are also connected, but the version of smartmontools I have doesn't have the drive in it's database. The are newer than the 3TB drives, so will have less hours.
 
My two oldest drives are 1TB Hitachi. Bought them already used with many hours on the clock. Spinrited them few times over and over and all bad sectors have been identified and spared out. For last two years or so there hasn't been a new bad sector.
I use these drives in RAID1 configuration. Normally a consumer would throw them out, but thanks to Spinrite, RAID1 and frequent monitoring I guess there's still plenty of life in these two :)

Device Model: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
Temperature_Celsius 30
Power_On_Hours 22472
Reallocated_Sector_Ct 1655

Device Model: Hitachi HDE721010SLA330
Temperature_Celsius 32
Power_On_Hours 72219
Reallocated_Sector_Ct 563


72k hours that's 8.25 years online.

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It appears the largest here at home for the drives currently connected to my linux pvr is over 74 thousand:
Code:
jmd0 ~/shell-scripts # sh examine_smart.sh
Wed 08 Apr 2020 12:35:03 PM EDT
sda User Capacity: 5,000,981,078,016 bytes [5.00 TB]    Serial Number:      44E3K004FK7A
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   027   027   000    Old_age   Always       -       29233
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdb User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]    Serial Number:      W300FC1Z
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   032   032   000    Old_age   Always       -       59697
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       4 4 4
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdc User Capacity: 10,000,831,348,736 bytes [10.0 TB]   Serial Number:      JEH733UN
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1031
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdd User Capacity: 10,000,831,348,736 bytes [10.0 TB]   Serial Number:      JEKU14JZ
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1194
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sde User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]    Serial Number:      PL2311LAG2UNAJ
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   093   093   000    Old_age   Always       -       50101
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       8

sdf User Capacity: 5,000,981,078,016 bytes [5.00 TB]    Serial Number:      44E3K005FK7A
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       39900
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       101

sdg User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]    Serial Number:      PK1331PAJ29R7S
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       20434
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdh User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      S2HGJDWZ806051
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   252   252   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       74790
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   252   252   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdi User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      S2HGJ1BZ836643
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   252   252   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       62930
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   252   252   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Got a simailar number at work on this server (smallest capacity file server):
Code:
fileserver1 shell-scripts # sh examine_smart.sh
Wed Apr  8 12:37:55 EDT 2020
sda User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      MN1220F31GZG7D
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   090   090   000    Old_age   Always       -       74597
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdb User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      82N2K3VNF
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       4
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       62541
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdc User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      82N2K3UPF
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       98
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       60974
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdd User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      42D1KCFNF
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       65303
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sde User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      MN1220F31NWX7D
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   090   090   000    Old_age   Always       -       74596
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdf User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      Z1X059LQ
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   033   033   000    Old_age   Always       -       58696
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   052   020   000    Old_age   Always       -       124392974
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdg User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      Z1X05ABQ
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   033   033   000    Old_age   Always       -       58696
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   053   009   000    Old_age   Always       -       146892868
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdh User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      MN1220F33JULPD
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   091   091   000    Old_age   Always       -       66397
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdi User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      82N2K3URF
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       613
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       62554
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdj User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      42D1KCO0F
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       65304
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

sdk User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]    Serial Number:      42E2KC0NF
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       65304
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 
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This is my oldest drive:
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360
Power on time: 1956 days 22 hours
Start/Stop count: 5189
Used as my trash drive, primarily for downloading stuff onto like drivers and software updates, etc.

But another has the most power on time:
WDC WD30EZRX-00AZ6B0
Power on time: 2030 days 19 hours
Start/Stop count: 744

Yes it is a notoriously unreliable WD Green, I've had these in raid, and none failed. They are retired and only used as offline backup now, so the Hitachi will overtake it within a few months.
 
I have 3 of them and they all still work and are in use. I bought the F4 drives since they were highly regarded as great drives at the time. I never had any issues with them.
This is all 3 of them,
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I had 4 of them (2TB) until about a year ago. Replaced them with 8TB WDs, they had close to 75K hours on them, no issues at all. Even managed to sell them.
 
Probably this guy..

Code:
Model Family:     Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B
Device Model:     Hitachi HTS545016B9A300
User Capacity:    160,041,885,696 bytes [160 GB]
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       80146
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       80103
 
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I can't quite remember but I might have bought this drive with a A64 3000+ build, so physically the drive might be 16/17 years?

I have an older 20GB Drive that was being used until maybe around a 1 (2?) years ago when the machine it was in was still running Linux. If I have time I might connect it and see what it reads.
 
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I can't quite remember but I might have bought this drive with a A64 3000+ build, so physically the drive might be 16/17 years?

I have an older 20GB Drive that was being used until maybe around a 1 (2?) years ago when the machine it was in was still running Linux. If I have time I might connect it and see what it reads.
Haha, thats nuts.
Easily the longest uptime posted so far.
And great operating temp for an old drive, mine always got hotter over time as the silicon aged and perhaps the bearing oil degraded.

LimitedAccess didnt apply to that drive :)
 
Drive Model: WDC WD1600AAJS-22PSA0 (was used as my boot drive in an athlon x2 6400+ and phenom II x4 940 up until 3 months ago when i built my ryzen system and finally bought an SSD)

[09] Power-On Hours/Cycle Count: 1/Always OK, Worst: 1 (81584 hours / 9.31 years)


Drive Model: Seagate ST3500630AS (not bad for a 40 dollar hard drive from fry's back in 2007 but it's my last surviving one of 6.. 2 of the 6 died after 1 year and the remaining 3 died about 3 years ago)

[09] Power-On Hours/Cycle Count: 26/Always OK, Worst: 26 (65497 hours / 7.48 years)

both drives are still connected to this system, i want to see if i can hit 10 years of power on hours with both of them before they die or if i retire them.


updating..

WD160 power on hours: 101,726 hours / 11.6 years

seagate ST3500 power on hours 83,118 / 9.49 years

one thing i find odd though is my 850 evo has 1000 more power on hours than my boot drive SSD but it's a year older than the 850 evo..
 
Love seeing the 100k+ poh. :) Especially since the drives were pretty run of the mill at the time. (y)
 
Wow.

100k is a bit more than mine, but mine are no spring chickens.

The 16 drives in my remote backup server are as follows:

Code:
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   086   086   000    Old_age   Always       -       10421
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   093   093   000    Old_age   Always       -       5389
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   093   093   000    Old_age   Always       -       5389
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   093   093   000    Old_age   Always       -       5786
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   093   093   000    Old_age   Always       -       5389
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   080   080   000    Old_age   Always       -       15244
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   039   039   000    Old_age   Always       -       45172
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   037   037   000    Old_age   Always       -       46160
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   038   038   000    Old_age   Always       -       45727
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   038   038   000    Old_age   Always       -       45457
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   067   067   000    Old_age   Always       -       24610
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   046   046   000    Old_age   Always       -       39866
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   042   042   000    Old_age   Always       -       42838
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   040   040   000    Old_age   Always       -       44125
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   039   039   000    Old_age   Always       -       44536
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   041   041   000    Old_age   Always       -       43464

These are all 4TB WD Red's.

There were originally 12, but I expanded the pool about 7 months ago. Makes me wonder if the 4 newer drives are those WD SMR drives based on recent news stories...

The other shorter hour ones were warranty replacements.

My 10TB Seagate Enterprise drives in my local server in my basement are a lot younger

Code:
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   076   076   000    Old_age   Always       -       21381 (178 63 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       20372 (230 196 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       20372 (247 161 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   075   075   000    Old_age   Always       -       21974 (234 25 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   076   076   000    Old_age   Always       -       21764 (38 22 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   076   076   000    Old_age   Always       -       21381 (241 254 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   076   076   000    Old_age   Always       -       21639 (108 245 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   076   076   000    Old_age   Always       -       21639 (169 121 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       20686 (54 155 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       20685 (22 191 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       20968 (78 250 0)
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       20968 (183 212 0)

And funnily enough, despite their bad reputation historically, my Seagate drives have been much more reliable than the WD RED drives were at this age. Have not lost any of them yet!
 
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74,216 hours and counting. 4 drives all with the same hour count in a ZFS RAIDZ1. It's what I call my "nice to have" data, backup of the backup.

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Thanks a lot.....Made me check my drives and one of them has serious issues :wtf: SeaTools is working on it now. It would have to be my largest 8TB Enterprise Grade Drive
 
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Kind of a funny story with those two.
Friend of a friend had like boxes of those, and also some Hitachi 2TBs. Offered to sell them to me for peanuts, IIRC it was $35 a pop.
They were still in the original sealed boxes, untouched plastic packaging and with some sort of hot-swap+converter contraptions. I can't into server gear, so I don't know what these are.
I was a bit pissed off when I saw the POH, but after a solid bout of mangling them with badblocks for a long time and watching SMART values I decided to use them for backups. They work ok, but run hot.
 

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I'm not actually sure if this is the highest I have. I think I have others that are higher. I don't ever turn my computers off.

But I also kind of replace my drives before most of them get to this point. It's just that this one I've been using for a very long time because there's not really any point at which your 1TB SSD is just outdated...
 
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While this is nowhere near my oldest functional drive, I impressed by this one because it was my primary OS drive from early 2010 to 2015 when I finally bumped up to an SSD. Since 2015 it's been used as my drive for steam games. That's 11+ years of heavy use..

...don't care if it dies, can always reinstall the games.
 
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I should probably hook up a couple other hard drives I no longer use but still have laying around. One of the drives is a Seagate and should have around the same power on time as these Hitachis if not a bit more. Basically a miracle for a Seagate from the time period.
 
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black. This drive has spent it's whole life in my main computer, and has my highest power-on hours for any drive outside of my file servers.
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These two Hitachi drives spent many years together in Raid-0, but I split them up when power-on hours started getting up there and one developed a Reallocated Sector - but that was 4+ years ago at this point and both drives are still going strong. The drive that I thought might be starting to fail never developed more than that one single Reallocated Sector so I'm willing to chalk that up as a fluke, but neither drive stores anything very important at this point anyway.
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Here's my oldest 2TB drive in my file server that has been running for quite a while. I probably have a few hard drives with more hours on them, but they're all in storage or in some of my retro PC's without SMART support.

10 years, 61 days (89,122 hours)--- 89 power cycles :p
Still going strong, no issues. Samsung 2TB HD204UI.

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my main pc's boot disk. left is the original drive with an identical but refurbished model on the right. i ran the one on the left for about a year till i did a rebuild and added the refurb drive for a raid 0.
 
Oldest I have going, that's still in active use, is this guy on the left, i've been hoping it'll just fucking die on me already but... nope, still going strong after such a ridiculous amount of years. (6.65 years powered on.) It's been through absolute hell, i'll say that. It's been my main torrenting drive for multiple years now. The toshiba is also getting up there but 18,000 hours is a pretty big gap.

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The oldest ones I have are in my offsite backup server.

12 of them served near line NAS duty from 2014 to 2017, then sat idle for a little bit before being transferred to the backup server.

Some of them have fewer hours than others because of RMA's over the years. Others because the backup server had more drive slots and I wanted to max it out, so I bought a few extra.

A couple have a few more hours on them. These would be the ones I bought first while building the server for testing. Some also hung in longer in the nearline server during the upgrade as I grew th epool by swapping them one by one and rebuilding, which took a while. This explains the variability in hours.

All of them are 4TB WD Red's.

View attachment 368684

Looks like the highest is 56167 hours, or about 6 years, 5 months.

These drives were replaced in the nearline NAS server with 12x Seagate 10TB drives (ST10000NM0016)

The Seagate drives started to be phased in in late 2017, but it took a while. They have now racked up some hours as well:

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Highest is 30249 hours, or 3 years, 6 and a half months.


From my admittedly small sample size, I'd argue that the Seagates in spite of their reputation have actually been more reliable than the WD's.

At this point, 3 and a half years in, I had already lost 3-4 out of 12 (can't remember exact number) WD Red's and replaced them under warranty.

With the Seagates, I'm only just seeing one starting to throw up error codes (8th drive from th etop with 29914 hours), but it might just be a loose cable as I recently moved the server. I am troubleshooting, but I may have to use Seagate's 5 year warranty soon for the first time.

The WD Red's are consumer NAS drives though, and the Seagates are enterprise helium drives, for whatever that is worth.


I don't know how many of you are familiar with reliability engineering, but most products follow the bathtub curve:

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I had ~4 WD Red failures in the first 4 years of use, 3 of which were in the first 2 years, but I haven't had one since. it looks like once they get beyond that infant mortality section they just keep chugging.

Granted, the workload in the backup server is less intense than in the primary server. UIt just gets an incremental block level dump every night at 3am, and then every two weeks on Sunday it does a scrub, reading back all data from all drives to see if there are any errors.

Edit:
Whoops. Apparently I posted the near identical thing in April last year, about 10,000 hours ago.

At least I'm consistent!

Edit2:

Also, after checking all connections the one Seagate drive is indeed bad.

At least the Seagate RMA process seems pretty painless. There wasn't even a gatekeeper in the way asking me to justify why I needed a replacement. Just enter the serial in their support and they automatically approve the return. There isn't even a field to fill out what was wrong.

They said they were out of stock on my replacement product, and asked if an equivalent product was OK. Let's see what I get...

I wonder if I am still as happy with the process once it is all over.

Edit3:

Whoops, accidentally deleted two images from this post, and now cant recover them. :(

I'll have to do another one with new hour totals later.
 
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Don't have a hour reading but I got a Quantum 6.4GB ide drive that has run 24/7 (with the exception of a few power outages) since being installed in 2000. Still running the company voicemail system.

Jesus Christ!

At this point wouldn't it be worth just imaging it onto something newer just in case? I mean, we aren't talking much money.
 
Don't have a hour reading but I got a Quantum 6.4GB ide drive that has run 24/7 (with the exception of a few power outages) since being installed in 2000. Still running the company voicemail system.
Has it ever been spun down during this time?
Based on my experience, that's when those trooper of a hard drive die. Spin down and failure on next spin-up.
Edit nvm I can't read.
Anyway incredibly impressive.
 
A mixture and Seagate the WD Black 7200k SATAs
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 56443 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 54116 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 51406 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 46746 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 57596 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 57596 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 18898 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 009 009 000 Old_age Always - 66704 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 57624 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 57625 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 57625 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 56472 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 57624 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42835 (45 49 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42835 (170 98 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42834 (178 89 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 31551 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 34497 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 054 054 000 Old_age Always - 40388 (238 225 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 054 054 000 Old_age Always - 40388 (194 23 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42836 (17 72 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42836 (25 10 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42835 (171 49 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42835 (168 165 0) 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 28001

And some 10K SAS
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 87205:49 Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 61033:04 Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 17759:11 Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 18121:54 Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 60590:41 Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 68351:43 Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 7160:10 Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 7068:51
 
Ill have to check 120 GB WD drive in one of my old systems, it has a ton of hours and writes on it. It was used as a torrent drive for 5 or 6 years back in the early 2000's, dont think I turned the system off for 7 or 8 years until torrenting pretty much died.
 
Not a hard drive, but I just had one of my two old 128GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD's fail.

Both of them started their lives as cache devices for a a storage pool. When the pool was updated yeas ago, they were replaced with larger devices. One of them served as a ring buffer device on my PVR server VM (this was the one that failed) the other still serves as the swap device on my server (but I am planning on retiring it as soon as I can order a replacement.)

Here are the details on the surviving one (the dead one likely had way more writes, but it won't even power on so I can get smart data out of it:

Code:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Samsung based SSDs
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 850 PRO 128GB
Serial Number:    
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 87000603b
Firmware Version: EXM01B6Q
User Capacity:    128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
TRIM Command:     Available
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Wed Jul 14 17:07:41 2021 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Code:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   082   082   000    Old_age   Always       -       90574
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       365
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0013   084   084   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       948
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032   064   055   000    Old_age   Always       -       36
195 ECC_Error_Rate          0x001a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 CRC_Error_Count         0x003e   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       62
235 POR_Recovery_Count      0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       193
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       251340369321

90574 hours = 10.34 years of uptime.

251340369321 LBA's is only 117TB written, which is why they were both still in service, as their wear leveling count was still at 84%, but I guess there is an age element to SSD failure as well, not just using up the write cycles.
 
Good to see all these huge hour drives still spinning. The longest I use a hard drive is in my NAS which gets replaced every 5/6 years. Even then, I set it so the drives only spin up during use so I have little fear of losing a drive much anymore. I think I've only RMA'd two hard drives in my whole life. I'm 40 and been building PCs since I was 8.
 
Ill have to check 120 GB WD drive in one of my old systems, it has a ton of hours and writes on it. It was used as a torrent drive for 5 or 6 years back in the early 2000's, dont think I turned the system off for 7 or 8 years until torrenting pretty much died.
When did torrenting die? I must have missed that saga.
 
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