HDD age

[Sir.Robin]

My drives are in few days, passing 70.000 hours!

Anyone else running drives at this age or older? :)

 

[garm]

Well done

Oldest I ever had before replacement was just over 40k hours. At present nothing is older then about 25k.

 

[Jailer]

I'd be looking to replace those drives if they contain important data.

 

[danb35]

I don't tend to go for prophylactic replacement, but at that age, I might reconsider. Oldest in my pool is 35k.

 

[Sir.Robin]

The Seagate SAS drives has been running fine since i put them in some errh... 4(?) maybe 5 years ago. Had a couple die on me, but most drives were 69.300 hours now.

Replacing for larger ones now :)

 

[Grandpa]

Pulling the hours from my current drives reads

• ada0 == 53758
  
• ada1 == 40430
  
• ada2 == 40442
  
• ada3 == 49665
  
• ada4 == 19326
• ada5 == 50560
• ada6 == 49978

Which is interesting considering 3 of those drives were brand new 3Tb Drives, in the box from a large commercial store and purchased over the last 3 weeks. (ada1, ada2, ada3) (ada4 is an old 2tb drive and ada5,6 are 1Tb drives I have had for years. ada0 is an ancient 160g drive I had used as a boot disk in desktop systems for several years and is the boot disk in the NAS.

Are we sure the smart data for hours run is correct? Those brand new drives show a minimum of 4.6 years of runtime.

 

[MrToddsFriends]

Are we sure the smart data for hours run is correct? Those brand new drives show a minimum of 4.6 years of runtime.

When talking about SMART attribute 9 Power_On_Hours with my limited experience I'm seeing solely reliable numbers in the RAW_VALUE field so far, with one noteworthy exception seen on a mirror of SanDisk X300s SSDs. On that exception the Power_On_Hours dropped by about 5000 for a reason unknown to me. Read: Shows a lower RAW_VALUE than the correct one (not the other way around) and occurred on a certain type of SSDs (not HDDs).

In other words: I would be very surprised if your ada1, ada2, ada3 disks would be really brand new. Of course this discussion is off-topic here in this thread.