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?
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, Scanner and SnapRAID. 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