Your longuest surviving HDD...

Levirginien · 27 Feb 2010 at 16:01

I often read lots of questions regarding HDD reliability...What is the longuest surviving HDD in your system?

I still have my beloved 74GB WD Raptor bought in 2005 going strong

(knock wood :eek:

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invisible69 · 27 Feb 2010 at 17:08

My 486 system's 512Mb still works...

Strawberry · 27 Feb 2010 at 17:18

I have never ever had a HDD fail on me yet, in the ~10 years I've been using computers.

Trunks9486 · 27 Feb 2010 at 17:24

No hard drive failed yet. Though i had a DOA drive last year from samsung.

And i think my 7 year old seagate drive is on its last legs.

Mick-1965 · 27 Feb 2010 at 18:06

74 GB Raptor as an OS drive since Dec 2003

38000 power on hours

GeezerButler · 27 Feb 2010 at 21:27

I've got two IBM drives around here still working. One's 4GB and the other 8GB. And also a 10GB Maxtor.

fordypaul · 27 Feb 2010 at 21:34

Snap with two WD 74gb Raptors from autumn 2005!

fordypaul · 27 Feb 2010 at 21:35

Mick-1965 said:
74 GB Raptor as an OS drive since Dec 2003

38000 power on hours

How do you get the hours please?

Mick-1965 · 27 Feb 2010 at 21:40

fordypaul said:
How do you get the hours please?

Crystal disk info

fordypaul · 27 Feb 2010 at 21:43

Thanks but mine shows no power on count?

Mick-1965 · 27 Feb 2010 at 21:51

I linked to a slightly newer version than the screen shot.
The screen shot was taken using version 3.3.0

Weird how the newer version has lost the Power on hours, all my drives show the power on hours with this version 3.3.0......strange

fordypaul · 27 Feb 2010 at 21:54

Well despite the hours, they are still working, thats the main thing

Mick-1965 · 27 Feb 2010 at 22:35

fordypaul said:
Well despite the hours, they are still working, thats the main thing

Just clicked ( beer head ATM ) lol
youre in raid mode
AFAIR you cant read most or any of the SMART values in raid mode.
Hence the lack of power on hours

Sudden · 27 Feb 2010 at 22:37

Not had a failed HDD yet thankfully

Longest running would probably be my 80 GB barracuda in my old system (past 4 years used only when main rig breaks down, so about 2-3 months in a year?). System's been around since about 2001? Or whenver GeForce 4 just came out

and lasted solid until then

Actually, barring the PSU no single component of the machine has ever broken down. Rock Solid

Compared to the current 'upgraded' machine which had the PSU, RAM, graphics card, processor and motherboard replaced, lol. Optical drives and HDD are the only ones still going strong

(74 gb raptor and 320 gb barracuda).

Ziggy4 · 28 Feb 2010 at 00:41

Have an almost 20 year old working Quantum Fireball SCSI HDD in my old (and still working) Amiga 4000. They don't build 'em like they used to.

Zarf · 28 Feb 2010 at 03:23

Strawberry said:
I have never ever had a HDD fail on me yet, in the ~10 years I've been using computers.

You've been exceptionally lucky.
In my experience somewhere around 15% of drives are either dead on arrival or die in the first week. After that there's around another 10% chance of failure each year (based roughly on the fact that I have around 10 mechanical drives in the house and at least one fails every year)
This is across many different brands, not just me being a cheapskate.

Moved onto solid state now for my gaming pc, htpc and laptop ... looking forward to significant reliability gains.

As for my longest surviving drive, not counting retired machines in the attic, it's an 80GB Western Digital from 2002 that's been in use across at least 5 different builds.

Rroff · 28 Feb 2010 at 04:37

I have a Western Digital WD384R (40MB) on a winchester interface date stamped 1988 thats still working fine

chaosquall · 28 Feb 2010 at 04:52

my wd caviar green failed on me last week had it a year.

my other hard drive has lasted 10k hours

fordypaul · 28 Feb 2010 at 09:52

Mick-1965 said:
Just clicked ( beer head ATM ) lol
youre in raid mode
AFAIR you cant read most or any of the SMART values in raid mode.
Hence the lack of power on hours

Ah, thanks for clarifying tho

silversurfer · 28 Feb 2010 at 21:25

Had a Maxtor 60gb Ide drive switched on and working from April 2000 till Jan 2008 roughly