hard drive hours

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:23 pm

i was just testing out a free hd monitoring utility i found:

http://www.ntfs.com/disk-monitor.htm#SMART

easy to use and a nice interface.

anyway, to prove how old my primary desktop is, here are the hd hours on both drives:

drive 1:
24161 hours (2 years 9 months 6 days 17 hours)

drive 2:
34134 hours (3 yrs 10 months 27 days 6 hours)

anyone else want to share?

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:43 pm

heh... My current system isn't anything old.. My oldest drive is a hair shy of matching your oldest. But, I have a couple of PCs at the office that are much older lol

eGo

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:22 am

Drive 1 in server
4 years, 6 months, 17 days, 1 hours of work time

Drive 2 in server
Work time not supported....

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:56 am

Fortunately, I retired a bunch of drives a while ago. So my worst is 25,000 hours. I did have a couple 80gb WDs up until a few months ago. However, I just got some SCSI server drives that I really should use this on. Hoping they have some life left.... that is if this works on them.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:40 pm

Drives in my primary systems (workstation, server) rarely get more than a year on them before I upgrade. I bet my Media Center PCs have some 3 or 4 year old drives in them.

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:34 pm

I cant read it on my 80gib since they are raid 0 and one of my other drives says SMART not supported. Other drive shows 2 years 9 months. I know I bought my 80g drives when my first daughter was born and she is 4 1/2 now. And yes...they are WD.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:38 pm

What's really scary, I have a 40gb IBM that I bought as a refurb & used for like 3 years (24/7) & finally sold to a guy I know 2 years ago. He's still using it today.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:14 pm

Older smaller drives are MUCH more reliable than modern high density drives. That's why I like to use small drives for the boot drive.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:06 am

Yeah, it's kind of funny, my boot drive on my server is a 8gb WD. I can't imagine how many years are on it.

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:11 am

remember, it is actual work time, not time it is up and running

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:43 am

True, but there's also time on the spindle bearings even if it's not doing anything. Plus a Windows system is ALWAYS doing something with the drive in the background.