Hard Drive Life

[Socaltom]

After reading another thread here, I decided to review the SMART data on my hard drives. I've got one with over 60,000 hours reported ( its an 80gig drive that was big when I bought it). Who can top me?
Tom

--Edit, BTW, this is on my PC, but it may end up on a ARM system if it keeps chugging along.

[slycat]

Had gotten this drive last year for a black friday sale. Didn't expect much but
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@AtomAnt builds]# smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep Power
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 093 093 000 - 6990')
Its been 7338 hours since the purchase date (wolfram, I didn't actually count) but I set it up a few weeks after that
So its been on over 95% of the time I've had it.

Side note: your pc has been powered on for over 6 1/2 years. Is that that first SMART drive to come out??

[Socaltom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('slycat', 'H')ad gotten this drive last year for a black friday sale. Didn't expect much but
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@AtomAnt builds]# smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep Power
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 093 093 000 - 6990')
Its been 7338 hours since the purchase date (wolfram, I didn't actually count) but I set it up a few weeks after that
So its been on over 95% of the time I've had it.

Side note: your pc has been powered on for over 6 1/2 years. Is that that first SMART drive to come out??

[moonman]

I have a Seagate 80GB with 69328 hours boutght in 2003 (I think...) Still works great and 0 bad blocks Somwhow these old drives work forever and the new 1-2TB ones break after 1 or 2 years.