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

  • rehydrate5503@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 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.