What's the most hours you've seen on a hard drive?

[Doomer]

I've got a WD with over 31k hours and S.M.A.R.T. is still perfect.

 

[Jeff7181]

We have a few hundred 133GB 15k FC drives that are over 6 years old, and they run 24/7, so at least 52,000 hours.

 

[Morbus]

I have a Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 8MB buffer withover 40k hours, everything works perfectly, no SMART errors and in fact no reallocated sectors or anything telling it's a well used HDD.

 

[corkyg]

I have 2 OS HDDs that run 24/7 every other week. They show 22,535 and 24,356 respectively. They are PATA IDE in use since Win 98. SMART indicates no problems - drive temp 31C. They are 160GB WDCs, and are filled to a bit less than 50% of capacity.

 

[bbhaag]

I just looked and apparently my Hitachi 500gb external drive has just over 27,000 hours on it. The next closest is an older Western Digital 80gb PATA drive with around 23,300.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I replaced an original drive in a AIX box that had a DOM from 1994. Dunno how many hours that is, but it was around for 18 years.

 

[silicon]

I have 2 OS HDDs that run 24/7 every other week. They show 22,535 and 24,356 respectively. They are PATA IDE in use since Win 98. SMART indicates no problems - drive temp 31C. They are 160GB WDCs, and are filled to a bit less than 50% of capacity.

Speaking of drive temperatures my 2 drives are at 34 and 37 C respectively. What is considered to be an excessive temp? 1 of the drives is just shy of 40,000 hours.

 

[corkyg]

There are several factors at play, but in general, a safe temperature range is 25C to 50C. HDDs can function beyond those limits, but failure rates increase.

 

[_Rick_]

Skeletor ~ # for i in /dev/sd? ; do smartctl -a $i; done | grep Power_On_Hours
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 058 058 000 Old_age Always - 31371
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 058 058 000 Old_age Always - 31361
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 14293
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 058 058 000 Old_age Always - 31371
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 010 010 000 Old_age Always - 79562
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 071 071 000 Old_age Always - 21789
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 54943
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 068 068 000 Old_age Always - 28103
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 54076
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 54071
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 018 018 000 Old_age Always - 72212
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 82686
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

in order:

Skeletor ~ # for i in /dev/sd? ; do smartctl -a $i; done | grep "Device Model"
Device Model: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1
Device Model: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1
Device Model: ST2000DL003-9VT166
Device Model: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1
Device Model: ST380013AS
Device Model: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD403LJ
Device Model: ST31000528AS
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD403LJ
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD403LJ
Device Model: ST340810A
Device Model: TRANSCEND
Device Model: WDC WD800JB-00ETA0
Device Model: TS8GSSD25-S


One 80k+, a few closing in on that.
And the two SSDs don't report Power_On_Hours. The TRANSCEND IDE module doesn't even have the value in the table, and the 2.5" IDE one has a zero value...