Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨me@toot.jack.water.house⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

12 years later and my first ever HDD is still going strong (WD Black)

Just ran SMART diagnostics on my trusty WD Black that I bought for my first gaming PC as a teenager back in 2013. This thing has been through probably 4 different PC builds over the years and now lives in my Proxmox NAS doing VM storage duty.

WDC WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (3TB)
- Power-On Hours: 50,448 (5.76 years over 12 calendar years = almost 50% duty cycle)
- Start/Stop Cycles: 19,961
- Power Cycles: 2,787
- Reallocated Sectors: 0
- Pending Sectors: 0
- SMART Status: PASSED

Zero bad sectors after 12 years and 4 different systems. I had a WD Blue from the same era but unfortunately lost it during one of the moves.

Really makes you appreciate the build quality from that generation of drives. The newer WD Blacks just don't seem to have the same longevity, though maybe I'm just getting nostalgic.

Anyone else still running ancient drives that refuse to die?

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comrade_twisty@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have a Seagate 105 Megabyte IDE drive from 1992 that is still working perfectly fine in my 386DX-33 RetroPC.

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- Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Holy shit, that’s insane…1992? Back then setting up a drive meant configuring interleave and some other stuff.
  
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  - Decipher0771@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Nah not THAT old, interleaving was pretty unnecessary by 1992, IDE drives generally didn’t need it, that was for the older MFM drives
    
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rehydrate5503@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Nice! They were definitely killing it back then.

I have a 2TB WD Red from iirc 2013 or 2014 working as my downloads drive. 28,125h (3y 2m). Most of that power on time is in the last year and a half. 0 errors.

I also have a WD Black 1TB from 2009 that has been in gaming PCs, media servers, in an enclosure as an external drive and in my Unraid box. I ran out of ports on my HBA so this grandpa is sitting in a drawer right now, but the power on has to be over 5y. I’ll try to check later.

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agelord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have one from 2015 that’s still working just fine.

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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I also have a WD black 2TB that must be near a decade now and it’s still going with zero issues. There were definitely doing something good.

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Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB. I believe it is from '14-15. Works.

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Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ve got some old seagate NAS drives that are in my temp data array (isos, annasarchive, etc) that are going on 15 years powered on. Seagate may have botched a lot of drives during the time these came out but these drives were solid.

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BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yep a 2TB 2010 NAS drive still holding data, the spin up time is getting a bit slow and some SMART numbers show it is getting older, so moved my data to a new drive to avoid catastrophic failure.

However watch out for bit rot on old drives. I had a few images fail to load because bits had become corrupted.

A ZFS system would alert you or fix these problems

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droolio@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Have 3x such WD Reds 3TBs with average ~100K hours power on each, 34.77 years total.

Spent most of that time in a HP Microserver N54L Windows 2012 R2 server with DrivePool and Scanner. Now they’re in a custom build Proxmox in RAIDZ1. Have no intention of retiring them. :)

Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   179   178   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       6033
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       2163
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       110229
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       123
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       35
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       2127
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   115   088   000    Old_age   Always       -       35
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

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tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That drive averages 900 hours between power cycles? In Windows?

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Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have a 64GB Crucial SSD from about 2010 that’s still going.

I use it as a boot drive for a Pi instead of using a microsd card.

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Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Meanwhile my Seagate ST1000DM003 lasted 3 years before literally imploding during boot. That was in 2018. I renew my drives yearly now !

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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yearly? Thats frankly nuts lol
  
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  - Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yea but I keep the old ones for redundancy
    
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Esjott@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Good ol laptop drive in my nas (raidz, 4 disks, one already exchanged due to failure)

Model Family: Seagate Samsung SpinPoint M8 (AF) Device Model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB

9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Al ways - 105687

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