HDD Power on time 3068 days...

[WinXPro04]

Hello guys Im a bit worried because the 2TB HITACHI hdd (from 2010) I just bough it says 3068 days power on time, thats like 8 years and a half. and also it says more than 100 days Estimated remaining lifetime while all of my other drives say more than 1000 days. Im planning to use this hdd as a secundary drive to store games. Should I be worried, whats the best way to test the hdd is funcioning correctly and is the remaining lifetime shown on HDsentinel accurate ?

 

[Thekwango]

you bought a 12 year old hard drive, second hand, and are surprised to see it's had a bucket load of power on time?

 

[WinXPro04]

Thanks for your help

 

[Thekwango]

Thanks for your help

apologies, my reply sounded a bit arsey - wasn't meant to.

it's a 12 year old hdd, it could give up the ghost any time or hammer away for years but i'd be betting on the former being the more likely. personally i'd not be buying a 12 year old used hdd, hell even if it was free i'd still say no. one piece of advice though, remove the mention of a competitor. it's against the forum rules.

i'd return it, if possible, and save up for a new hdd.

 

[WinXPro04]

Alright I appriciate your advice, I will prop return it to the store asap

 

[Thekwango]

Alright I appriciate your advice, I will prop return it to the store asap

how much did they charge you for it?

 

[WinXPro04]

£22 it was the cheaper one for that capacity
I think it was a server drive cuz the start/stop count is so low

 

[VersionMonkey]

£22 it was the cheaper one for that capacity
I think it was a server drive cuz the start/stop count is so low

I can't say whether that is a good price for a used Ultrastar, but it's almost half way to a brand new 2TB desktop drive.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x WD 2TB Blue HDD 5400rpm 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (WD20EZAZ)= £44.99
• 1 x Seagate 2TB Barracuda HDD 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM008)= £46.99
• 1 x WD 2TB Blue HDD 7200rpm 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (WD20EZBX)= £47.99

Total: £148.67 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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The SMART stats you posted suggest the drive is currently fine (don't forget the "more than" bit of the remaining lifetime, not that that means much anyway).

The older a drive gets, the probability of it failing today increases. If you decide to keep it, do a full format (not a quick format), and don't put anything on it that you can't recover easily.

 

[WinXPro04]

Ok thank so much for your help, now Im actually curious how much this thing will last I think I will keep it but I wont put any important information on it. This are the new results I got fron CrystalDiskInfo

 

[kindai]

I would take it back and buy new for the price difference.

 

[El Jimben]

You could grab a B grade drive from here for not much more than you paid - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/clearance/hard-drives-and-ssd-s?p=1

 

[Cyber-Mav]

These sort of dives are rated for 1 million hour mean time to failure. Dunno where that figure is pulled out from since iv not seen any drive do 1 million hours power on time but then again i replace drives due to being too small rather than nackered

 

[philo-sofa]

I mean.. it actually says >100 days I'm guessing that's the maximum estimated lifetime remaining? It's still an old drive so I'd be suspect about relying on it, but there's nothing on HDSentinel or CrystalDiskInfo that is actually flagging as a problem.

 

[LeoK]

Throwing out a probably bad idea, but you could always get a second drive and mirror.

Double the power. A chance of backup. Double the failure rate (sort of). My local mirror backup is still going strong after years. I still don't trust it enough to be my only source of backup (fire, malware, etc.). So I always have offline / cloud too.

 

[Guest2]

As already said, it is a 12 year hdd so may have been powered on and used a lot.

It could be fine for many more years or could die at any time. Ok for a secondary cheapo games drive if you ask me, just keep saves on a different drive.
I’ve had drives in retro systems that are 20+ years old and still work fine

 

[darael]

I've had regular 7200 RPM desktop Hitachi and Toshiba hard drives with around 8 years on the clock, before I decided to replace them. Usually I needed a bigger size, but more recently I replaced a 2 TB drive with another 2 TB drive as I simply didn't need any more storage.

I don't dispose of or sell the hard drives when they are removed working and have zero issues shown in the SMART data. I simply repurpose them as backup drives, used a few times a year to dump Macrium Reflect images onto. That's how much faith and confidence I have in them.

So no, I wouldn't worry too much about 8 years. Especially from a server drive.

 

[andy_mk3]

From my experience it's usually the 70-80k power on hours mark that the bathtub curve of failures starts rising for end of life.

 

[Deleted member 76686]

Personally I've got some old NAS drives I'm only just about considering to sell since there DOM is 2013 and they've all got 55000 power-on hours on the clock, they all report in Seatools long test as fine but ultimately they are old.