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?
Yea but I keep the old ones for redundancy