The end maybe near. 40,000 hours

[tweakboy]

I am at 39,965 hours. 35 hours til death do us part or it will pass 40k and keep working.

We will find out soon. I will post a hd tune screenshot if it passes 40k and still works..

 

[alaricljs]

Man I am gonna have to dig around in my DC and pull runtime data on some of the disks... 8 years at 24x7... that's like... 70k hours. Yes some of them are IDE.

 

[tweakboy]

oh WOW yours went 70k hours wow thats good news for me then.

The drives are kept at avg 26c and what not.. Well see Thanks I say it will surpass 40k hours and keep tickin while takin a lickin lol,, thanks and gb and gg

 

[AnnonUSA]

Bah, I have a 10MB MFM Miniscribe that still works. It's a full-height 5 1/4" tower of power, baby.

Damn, I worked with Miniscribe, Micropolis, Conner, ahhhhh... the Memories...

Younglings ...
Here is one of the old fame:

smartctl version 5.38 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     IBM Deskstar 60GXP series
Device Model:     IC35L020AVER07-0
Serial Number:    SVPTVF16145
Firmware Version: ER2OA44A
User Capacity:    20,576,747,520 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   5
ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1
Local Time is:    Sun Sep 19 20:10:42 2010 EEST

==> WARNING: IBM Deskstar 60GXP drives may need upgraded SMART firmware.
Please see http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/index.html#rel and
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-42215 or
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42215

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   117   117   024    Pre-fail  Always       -       136 (Average 120)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       345
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       41
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   020    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   092   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       61145
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       342
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       345
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       345
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   171   171   000    Old_age   Always       -       32 (Lifetime Min/Max 1/42)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       41
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       6
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Not peachy, but not dead either.

WOW That has to be a world record! A Deathstar that made it out of Warranty period!

 

[tweakboy]

I will be posting HD tune screenie soon.

 

[lsv]

Are you kidding me? My P4 system must be heading seven years
old & was built using a set of 120 WDs. Only lost one drive in all this time (and have two back ups on standby). I use that system almost every day & have a lot of hours on it movie watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM 🙂

 

[tweakboy]

She lives, She lives here is hd tune shot.

 

[Emulex]

i had a 4gb with freebsd 3.x - damn thing was running 5 years after i left my job at the datacenter lol - the other drives (250-1tb) all failed with errors.

 

[tweakboy]

Yes IMO ,, the larger size drive , more platters higher chance of going bad and not making it to 40k hours and beyond. Shes going strong Im proud of her,, its 120GB but the drive is empty right now,, soo its ok,, I dont need space for no reason ull never use it up unless your a porn geek downloading movie after movie everyday lol

 

[Ovven]

Here's a few of my older HDDs that i'm still using in my desktop. Suprisingly, only a couple of them had a few reallocated sectors after passing 40-50k hours.

 

[tweakboy]

Wow nice screenshots my friend. Wow thats amazing 50k hours, I bet it will keep on going wow, nice good stuff,

 

[tweakboy]

Props to WDC

 

[skid00skid00]

Dude, it's the internet. It's REAL easy to find out what MTBF means...