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?
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.