So. What's the HD that 'just won't fail'.

 

Myself? It's 2 500gb Hitachis I purchased in 1-2008. They've been running non-stop in one way or another since 2008. Either in a desktop as a single partition, or in unraid servers as cache drives, or backup windows 7 drives clones.

 

They haven't failed. While I've relagated them to low priority low dependability drives, they just don't quit.

 

What's yours? Got another piece of kit that just keeps running far beyond it's life span? I'd like to hear about it.

What a coincidence - I was just marveling that my 2 hgst 500 gb drives were still going strong after 4 years.  I bought mine from the bargain bin with no warranty at a microcenter around 2009.  They served in an esxi host raid 10 24-7 for 3 years, and just got retired last november when I switched to ssd.  I used them temporarily today to move around some vm's without fail.

 

My HDD that wouldn't die is (was) a quantum atlas 10k 10gb scsi drive that I purchased around 1999.  I used it along with a tekram wide scsi controller, epson perfection scanner, plextor cd burner, and the gem of the bunch - a nikon coolscan 35mm slide scanner.  One by one they died - first the scanner, then the cd burner, then last year the nikon coolscan broke beyond repair.  The HDD, however, refused to quit.  I finally threw away the mb/controller/hdd because there was nothing else I could do with a win2k installation.  Now that I think about it, I still have the PC Power & Cooling case/PS, so maybe they should get an honorable mention as well.

 

Ahh memories...

 

 

Ahh, quantum drives.

 

Makes me think of my PD210 that I bought in 89. It started to fail in 1992. I called Quantum. I got to speak with one of the guys who *designed* the hard drive. He said it had started to 'squanch' (spelling?) ... He had me plug in the power, and twist the drive violently counterclockwise. Once it had spun it, he said it'd run forever. I ran that drive as my main BBS (Amiga CNET) drive for another 2 years. Until I got sick of spinning it violently every time I had to power cycle. On a reboot it was fine, it wouldn't spin down. On a power cycle it'd spin down.

 

I miss that level of service/support. When one could speak with someone who *made* the hardware, well, that was something special.

I recently sold a few drives from 2004/2005 with zero errors on them. They also didn't have many hours on them either though.

 

As for drives still in use, I have a few that predate 2008. I also just RMA'd a 4.99 year-old Seagate ST31500541AS -- the one with the firmware disaster. After the firmware upgrade, it had been running strong for nearly 5 years, but had a few too many reallocated sectors, so I RMA'd it and got a refurb ST1500DM003 with a 90 day warranty, which I'm putting straight on FleaBay.

I have a couple of the first wd green drives running over 39,000 hours (or 4.5+ years straight.)

 

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