Dear unRAID community,

 

This is a commemorative post, I hope you find it insightful.

 

My last 2TB drive had raw read errors three days ago and I decided to retire it.

• It is the last disk I started unRAID with in 2012.
• It bought it on 6 August 2010, so it dies just short its 14th birthday
• It had 9years, 4 months of power-on hours

 

The drive holds the clear record among my drives regarding longevity.

 

It's a Western Digital purple WDC_WD20EVDS-63T3B0.

 

I only had one other purple. The other one also turned out to be very long lasting.

 

What are your longest lasting drives?
 

Best,

 

tazman

Edited August 4, 20241 yr by tazman

I have a Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD in my server now, which I bought in 2012.  It has lived in many different systems over those years.  Originally a Windows boot drive for my daily use PC, it now is used for transcoding space for Plex in my server.

 

I just pulled up the SMART for it, now at 66971 hours (7.6 years).  It has written a little more than 21.6 TB of data, which is its full capacity 180 times.  No errors, no retired blocks.  The little bastard will probably outlive all of us.  😆

On 8/5/2024 at 12:30 AM, ConnerVT said:

I have a Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD in my server now, which I bought in 2012.  It has lived in many different systems over those years.  Originally a Windows boot drive for my daily use PC, it now is used for transcoding space for Plex in my server.

 

I just pulled up the SMART for it, now at 66971 hours (7.6 years).  It has written a little more than 21.6 TB of data, which is its full capacity 180 times.  No errors, no retired blocks.  The little bastard will probably outlive all of us.  😆

Thanks, bringing up SSDs is a great point. They might be way more reliable than initially estimated.