April 11, 201313 yr I am about to retire a workstation I've had for many years. I couldn't even remember when I put it in service. It was after the Supermicro X5DAL boards were easily accessible used on eBay. It was running with the really nice LV 2.4 GHZ 32Bit XEON processors of the day. For it's time it was a really nice board and served me well. What made me laugh today was reviewing the smart reports of the drives I'm about to retire. It seems the machine has been in service over 7.5 years. One of the IBM 9GB SCSI drives has been running so long the power on hours rolled over past 65535 and it made me laugh and think about how we try so hard to spin our hard drives down to save them. Yet these have been spinning non stop for so long without trouble. The only thing special in this case is a highly designed airflow in a very poorly designed case. I worked hard to make sure there was airflow through the case with extra slot fans and PSU. Just for laughs this is the case. I'll attach the smart reports for further review and discussion. It's funny about the rollover of power on hours. I was stumped for a minute because I just ran a smart test and it said. 571 hours??? So it must have rolled over considering I installed the 2 drives around the same time. SMART Self-test log Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [sK ASC ASQ] Description number (hours) # 1 Background short Completed - 571 - [- - -] # 2 Background short Completed - 40392 - [- - -] # 3 Background long Completed - 5 - [- - -] hda.txt sda.txt sdb.txt
April 11, 201313 yr Author Best front panel ever. I'm going to cry when I have to toss this puppy. It was cool, but it could only serve as a workstation since it's really slim on expandability.
April 17, 201313 yr Great looking case. My main issue with spinning the drives down is not so much to save their life, it is the heat. Summertime in Texas is not exactly the coolest location. I am actually of the opinion that we are in fact decreasing the life in some cases with spin up/down cycles, depending on usage pattern, versus letting it run.
April 17, 201313 yr Author Great looking case. My main issue with spinning the drives down is not so much to save their life, it is the heat. Summertime in Texas is not exactly the coolest location. I am actually of the opinion that we are in fact decreasing the life in some cases with spin up/down cycles, depending on usage pattern, versus letting it run. Heat is the silent killer!
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