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What is the highest hour HD you currently have in operation?

What brand of drive has the most hours (HD not SSD) in one of your systems?

  • Western Digital

  • HGST

  • Seagate

  • Hitachi

  • Toshiba

  • Huawei

  • Fujitsu

  • Maxtor

  • Other

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jimbob200521

jimbob200521

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Just out of morbid curiosity, what hours are you running on your highest hour drive in any one of your given PC's? My server has a RAID member 500gb drive currently at 68156 hours which translates to 2839.8 days or nearly 8 years (7.78 years to be exact). Not too shabby although at this point I would say it doesn't owe me a thing with those hours. So post your screens, your hours, and you vote in the pole as to what your highest hours are and what brand drive those proudly belong to.

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I don't know in hours, have to measure it in years. A Seagate 320G Barracuda 7200.10, gotta be at least ten years old, been in three different computers.

This Barracuda was probably one of the crappiest hard drives Seagate ever made, yet it's still running. Gives me hope for the world.
 
WD500GB - now six years old going on 7. I don't have time play with Crystal Disk.
 
WD Green 2TB, one at 25 000 hours, one at 20 000. They're quite a few years old, but haven't been in 24/7 service for more than maybe one or two.

OT: Checking them out in CrystalDiskInfo right now, the 20 000h one has a "Current Pending Sector Count" reading of 1. Everything else is at 200, the baseline. I guess I have to buy a new HDD. Damn.
 
A 2TB external I had connected to a router around... 2012, maybe? I shucked it and threw it in my server with a bunch of other 2TB and 3TB drives. (Labelling says it's a Toshiba DT01ABA200.)

Make and model Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630 MZ4OAAB0
Power On Hours 27542 (Normalized: 097)
Power Cycle Count 3510 (Normalized: 100)
 
WDC Blue 750GB - 63427 hours.

Power cycle count: 499
Load cycle count: 985
Temperature: 41C 😎
 
I'll share three drives

Samsung SSD 830 Series 256.0 GB (Primary OS Drive - Windows 7)
Total Host Writes: 9.25TB
Power On Count: 126 Count
Power On Time: 35620 Hours/4.066 Years
Total Host Writes Per Time On: 2.275 TB Per Year (9.25TB/4.066 Years)
Purchase Date Oct 9, 2012
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Western Digital 1,000 GB Caviar Green (Music/Pictures backup drive)
Power On Count: 365 Count
Power On Time: 63872 Hours/7.291 Years
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Western Digital 2,000GB Caviar Black (Primary Storage Drive)
Power On Count: 112 Count
Power On Time: 35558 Hours/4.059 Years​
 
I generally don't keep HDDs over three years. (Maybe five now, for my 2TB Hitachis in my unRAID server, but they spin down, they haven't been running that time 24/7.) I get new ones, wipe the old ones, and sell them, if they don't have any bad sectors.
 
A modern WD Black I have can't keep track of time for ****, therefore I wouldn't put much stock in SMART readings in this respect.
 
I have a couple of WD 750 GB drives that ran 24/7 in a RAID5 array from 2007 until late last year or early this year. They still work fine as well, but I have that box turned off right now.

The oldest working drive I have in terms of age (not hours used) is a 52 MB Quantum SCSI drive from 1993, which is installed in an Amiga 2000 and boots fine. I bought it new in 1993 so I've owned it the entire time.
 
I have a Hitachi 500GB in one of my builds, I think it just crested 30K hours. I also have a WD Green in AV 24/7 use, it may have more hours. I have to pull the drive to get a SMART reading on it.

I've not had any SSD in service long enough to build up enough hours like an HDD... between upgrading and failures none have got there. The oldest one I have is in the same box as the Hitachi noted above, an Intel 120GB 530 with about 20K on it.
 
A WD Caviar Blue 640GB - 2342 days and 11 hours. Just had to retire a newer Samsung F3 that was starting to produce bad sectors.
 
Valantar said:
WD Green 2TB, one at 25 000 hours, one at 20 000. They're quite a few years old, but haven't been in 24/7 service for more than maybe one or two.

OT: Checking them out in CrystalDiskInfo right now, the 20 000h one has a "Current Pending Sector Count" reading of 1. Everything else is at 200, the baseline. I guess I have to buy a new HDD. Damn.
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I bought at least 3 of those and all have failed. I'm currently trying to bring one back to life. They haven't been run continuously, IOW I put the machines to which they were connected to sleep most of the time. I'm so disappointed in those drives, I'd never buy another WD external HD again. I have 3 Seagate 3TB external HDs that haven't failed me yet, had maybe 1.5 years and they came with 3 year warranties. The WD drives were only warranted for one year (doh!). I have a couple of 3TB WD RED HDs in my NAS, so far so good, over a year, but those are highly rated by users, a different story, they are internal HDs, not in WD case solutions.

I think the HD that has the most hours of all the ones I've owned is a 2.5" Hitachi that was in this laptop before I swapped it out for an SSD. Got 8+ years of trouble free service out of it, a 60GB 5400RPM drive.
 
I got a raid 10 with 4 Toshibas running on 25k hours. I built that array as a "test" and extra space when I originally built my file server and it's only been turned off a few times. Though, does this value roll over after a while? I have a raid 5 array that is even older yet the drives only show up as 9k hours. Seems odd. The raid 5 array was moved from an older server.

Bunch of random drives I checked:

Code: 
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdj | grep -i hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   087   087   000    Old_age   Always       -       9628
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdf | grep -i hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   070   070   000    Old_age   Always       -       22467
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdh | grep -i hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   070   070   000    Old_age   Always       -       22488
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdl | grep -i hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   080   080   000    Old_age   Always       -       14987
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdo | grep -i hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   082   082   000    Old_age   Always       -       13809
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sds | grep -i hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       25400
[root@isengard uploads]# smartctl -a /dev/sdu | grep -i hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       25496


Most of my drives are Hitachi, HGST and WD and I've had good luck with all 3. Seagates are often tempting because of how cheap they are especially when on sale but the known failure rate is just too high to want to deal with them, even with raid.
 
Muse said:
I bought at least 3 of those and all have failed. I'm currently trying to bring one back to life. They haven't been run continuously, IOW I put the machines to which they were connected to sleep most of the time. I'm so disappointed in those drives, I'd never buy another WD external HD again. I have 3 Seagate 3TB external HDs that haven't failed me yet, had maybe 1.5 years and they came with 3 year warranties. The WD drives were only warranted for one year (doh!). I have a couple of 3TB WD RED HDs in my NAS, so far so good, over a year, but those are highly rated by users, a different story, they are internal HDs, not in WD case solutions.
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External drives? Who's talking about external drives? WD Greens are internal drives. They might be used in MyBooks and stuff like that (logcal, with them being the quiet/low-power series), but they're still internal drives.
 
Valantar said:
External drives? Who's talking about external drives? WD Greens are internal drives. They might be used in MyBooks and stuff like that (logcal, with them being the quiet/low-power series), but they're still internal drives.
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What I bought at least 3 of is:

Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive. I think some or all of them had WD Green HDs in them. All failed. Well, the one that went RAW the other day is now under a prolonged chkdsk /r. Maybe it can be saved. Right now, Windows can't access the drive.
 
Valantar said:
External drives? Who's talking about external drives? WD Greens are internal drives. They might be used in MyBooks and stuff like that (logcal, with them being the quiet/low-power series), but they're still internal drives.
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They are simply drives. They can be used internally or externally. Don't limit your thinking to ready made externals. I have 5 Vantec cases running 3.5-in "internals" externally. Been doing that for years.
 
corkyg said:
They are simply drives. They can be used internally or externally. Don't limit your thinking to ready made externals. I have 5 Vantec cases running 3.5-in "internals" externally. Been doing that for years.
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Of course you can. That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about Muse calling WD Greens (a range of 3,5" internal SATA HDDs, specifically) "external drives", simply stating that while they might be used inside of external drives, labeling them so is simply wrong.
Muse said:
What I bought at least 3 of is:

Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive. I think some or all of them had WD Green HDs in them. All failed. Well, the one that went RAW the other day is now under a prolonged chkdsk /r. Maybe it can be saved. Right now, Windows can't access the drive.
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That's what I was talking about. You bought external drives that simply happened to contain WD Greens. From my experience with the WD Elements line, they probably failed from shitty construction, lack of ventilation, lack of spin-down on idle, bad PSUs, and other cost-cutting features. Elements is/was a value line, after all. The drives themselves should be okay. Not great, just okay.
 
1TB WD Green that is showing 62241
2TB WD Green that is showing 47352
3 x 2TB Seagate Barracudas that are 32872
500GB Samsung that is showing 46299 but is throwing up SMART warnings and I should probably replace very, very, very soon.
 
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