Your longuest surviving HDD...

Levirginien

Levirginien

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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:D
(knock wood:eek:)
 
74 GB Raptor as an OS drive since Dec 2003

38000 power on hours :D
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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
 
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 :p and lasted solid until then :D

Actually, barring the PSU no single component of the machine has ever broken down. Rock Solid :D 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 :p (74 gb raptor and 320 gb barracuda).
 
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.
 
Strawberry said:
I have never ever had a HDD fail on me yet, in the ~10 years I've been using computers.
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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.
 
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