What is your HDD/SSD lifetime?

[Rhoxed]

I recently got my first SSD - amazing. Corsair Force GT 180GB, I'm loving it.


Well looking through the bench's and SMART profiles for my drives, I came across - Power On Hours Count -

Now I'm interested. Who has the most hours counted, or whats the average on the site.

In my 1090T rig - I have a
Corsair Force GT 180GB (9 hours logged)
Samsung HD103SJ 1,000GB (2081 hours logged)
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB (34,631 hours logged) - whoa

so my oldest drive is 3.93 years calculated in usage hours.

(will update with other computers)

 

[ShintaiDK]

In this house we got 4 SSDs and 1 HD covering 4 computers.

Intel X-25M 80GB G1 21646 hours.
Intel X-25M 80GB G2 (Not checked)
Intel SSD 320 300GB 3925 hours.
Intel SSD 320 300GB 0 hours since its not used yet. Ready for Ivy.
WDC WD15EADS 1½TB (Not checked)

 

[tweakboy]

I had 55,000 hours and the hard drive was working fine and well. But I had to take it out as it was a 120GB ,,,,

SSD life, we still dont know but were getting a idea in the community.

I would think a moveable part like HD cant out last a SSD which has no moving parts.. gl

 

[Hugo Drax]

I had 55,000 hours and the hard drive was working fine and well. But I had to take it out as it was a 120GB ,,,,

SSD life, we still dont know but were getting a idea in the community.

I would think a moveable part like HD cant out last a SSD which has no moving parts.. gl

SSD is still in beta. A good high quality HD will outlast in terms of reliability/Uptimes. I will stay away from SSD until proven otherwise. I hear too many horror stories regarding BSODs and dataloss.

Spinning platters have decades of refinement. My next storage upgrade will be to the new Velociraptor 1TBs. I feel more comfortable with those for now.

 

[ShintaiDK]

If we look away from buggy SSD controllers like the SandForce disaster. Then when looking at my drives and with relatively heavy usage. We talk possible lifespans in the 20-30 years if we only look at the write issue. And thats still very conservative, since its tested before that drives can easily do both 2-3 and 5x more than advertised.

The same applies for those SSDs we use in servers and desktops at work. HD failures are quite common. SSD failures, not so much.

If there are other problems related to life we have to see. I think my oldest SSD is 4 years now. Still runs like day 1. The 1½TB HD might be the last HD this household will ever have.

People might complain about price per GB. But its the single best upgrade I had since the first Voodoo 3D cards. Would you rather buy a 16GB DDR2 Geforce 210 or a 2GB GTX 680....

Microsoft also got this nice chart telling you why HDs are just a huge slow bottleneck today:

Remember 95% of all your I/O operations are in average random I/O where HDs give you...250-500KB/sec. Not 50-100MB/sec.

 

[jpiniero]

Looked at the SMART data on the old machine, which has an 8 GB drive and a 12 GB. The hours count was useless, it must have rolled over at some point.

 

[pitz]

~10,000 hours on my Samsung PM800 128gb MMCRE SSD
~21,000 hours on my 7K2000 Hitachi 2Tb
~5,000 hours on my 7K3000 Hitachi 2Tb
<1 hour on my 7K3000 Hitachi 2Tb (shelf spare)
~40,000 hours on my 500gb Seagate ATA 7200.10

 

[IGemini]

Corsair F115 ~ 6,365 hours
Samsung HD103UJ ~ 13,935 hours
Hitachi 7K1000 ~ 22,800 hours

No idea what my HD154 external is.

 

[icanhascpu2]

Remember 95% of all your I/O operations are in average random I/O where HDs give you...250-500KB/sec. Not 50-100MB/sec.

Are you just making that 95% number up?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4253/the-crucial-m4-micron-c400-ssd-review/4
"Only 42% of all operations are sequential, the rest range from pseudo to fully random (with most falling in the pseudo-random category). Average queue depth is 4.625 IOs, with 59% of operations taking place in an IO queue of 1."

 

[ShintaiDK]

You do know those numbers are only Anandtechs benchmark, right?

Just run perfmon for the day and see how it goes.