12 years later, my first HDD still runs strong (WD Black)

My 2013 WD Black from my first gaming PC is still perfect after 4 builds, now in my Proxmox NAS:

WDC WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (3TB)
- 50,448 hours (5.76 years / 12 years)
- 19,961 start/stop cycles
- 0 reallocated sectors
- SMART: PASSED

Zero bad sectors after 12 years with a almost 50% duty cycle, not bad. WD seemed to be killing it back then.

Anyone else running ancient drives that refuse to die?

@selfhosted

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I have a Seagate 105 Megabyte IDE drive from 1992 that is still working perfectly fine in my 386DX-33 RetroPC.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Holy shit, that’s insane…1992? Back then setting up a drive meant configuring interleave and some other stuff.

      • Decipher0771@lemmy.caEnglish
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        23 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