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So I have installed four 6TB 7200 RPM HGST Deskstar NAS drives into my system about 4 years ago. I wasn't sure about longevity if these drives with them being 7200 RPM but the main difference I noticed was they run a few degrees warmer than my old 4TB WD Reds. The warranty expired for these drives on October 29, 2020 and here we are and they are still performing very well even after being expired over 1 year. I'm probably jinxing myself even speaking about it, lets hope not.
The drives run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The system was powered down for routine maintenance (cleaning the dust out of the case and replacing one case fan) and when I moved to a new house the system was powered down for several months until I had a new house to move into and could set up the system again. Most of the Power Stop Count values of 128 were from initial build and testing, not powering off for cleaning/maintenance. I did burn the drives in and since I use VMWare to run my system, just a lot of initial testing before moving my data to these drives. I perform daily SMART Short tests (Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun @ 00) and weekly SMART Long/Extended tests (Tue @ 00). Below is a snippet of my daily emails I receive at 10AM and I included the first drive data as well, the other drives are very similar. So the drive temps are about 3C higher than normal becasue I turned off the HVAC in the house so the second floor (where the server resides) is slightly warmer than when I have the HVAC turned on and I expect the temps to drop a bit when winter hits my area. The drives are listed in order from top of the case to the bottom of the case and the reason for the 35C temp is just slightly better airflow across that drive.
In summary, I'm surprised how well these drives have held up and very pleased. When I need to replace these drives I will likely look for a 5200-5400 RPM replacement becasue I do not require the higher speed and I'd like it to run a little cooler, but I have nothing against 7200 RPM drives for a home NAS anymore.
The drives run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The system was powered down for routine maintenance (cleaning the dust out of the case and replacing one case fan) and when I moved to a new house the system was powered down for several months until I had a new house to move into and could set up the system again. Most of the Power Stop Count values of 128 were from initial build and testing, not powering off for cleaning/maintenance. I did burn the drives in and since I use VMWare to run my system, just a lot of initial testing before moving my data to these drives. I perform daily SMART Short tests (Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun @ 00) and weekly SMART Long/Extended tests (Tue @ 00). Below is a snippet of my daily emails I receive at 10AM and I included the first drive data as well, the other drives are very similar. So the drive temps are about 3C higher than normal becasue I turned off the HVAC in the house so the second floor (where the server resides) is slightly warmer than when I have the HVAC turned on and I expect the temps to drop a bit when winter hits my area. The drives are listed in order from top of the case to the bottom of the case and the reason for the 35C temp is just slightly better airflow across that drive.
In summary, I'm surprised how well these drives have held up and very pleased. When I need to replace these drives I will likely look for a 5200-5400 RPM replacement becasue I do not require the higher speed and I'd like it to run a little cooler, but I have nothing against 7200 RPM drives for a home NAS anymore.
Code:
########## SMART status report summary for all SATA drives on server FREENAS ##########
+------+------------------------+----+------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+------+----------+------+-----------+----+
|Device|Serial |Temp| Power|Start|Spin |ReAlloc|Current|Offline |Seek |Total |High | Command|Last|
| |Number | | On |Stop |Retry|Sectors|Pending|Uncorrec|Errors|Seeks |Fly | Timeout|Test|
| | | | Hours|Count|Count| |Sectors|Sectors | | |Writes| Count |Age |
+------+------------------------+----+------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+------+----------+------+-----------+----+
|ada0 |K1JUMLBD |38 | 28323| 128| 0| 0| 0| 0| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| 0|
|ada1 |K1JRSWLD |37 | 28323| 128| 0| 0| 0| 0| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| 0|
|ada2 |K1JUMW4D |35 | 28323| 128| 0| 0| 0| 0| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| 0|
|ada3 |K1GVD84B |36 | 28323| 128| 0| 0| 0| 0| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| 0|
+------+------------------------+----+------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+------+----------+------+-----------+----+
########## SATA drive /dev/ada0 Serial: K1JUMLBD
########## HGST Deskstar NAS (HGST HDN726060ALE614)
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 138 138 054 Pre-fail Offline - 100
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 150 150 024 Pre-fail Always - 402 (Average 477)
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 128
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 128 128 020 Pre-fail Offline - 18
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 28323
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 88
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1386
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1386
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 157 157 000 Old_age Always - 38 (Min/Max 19/46)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
No Errors Logged
Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
Extended offline Completed without error 00% 28302 -
Short offline Completed without error 00% 28311 -
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
