RIP my longest running drive

[tazman]

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 by tazman

[ConnerVT]

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.  😆

[tazman]

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.