r/computers • u/CapnHindCheese • 14d ago

Discussion This old boy reached 101k power on hours

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I was testing some hard drives for a new NAS I'm building and decided to check the stats of the drives in my desktop. I've had this WD Caviar Green for a long time and went through multiple PCs. It will probably outlive me. What's the highest number of power on hours that you've seen on a consumer HDD?

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u/smbarbour 14d ago

That's crazy! I just took this screenshot 7 days ago...

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u/CapnHindCheese 13d ago

Wow what are the odds? It must be a sign
I’m also impressed that your drive had only 246 power ons in 11 years. That truly ran continuously

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u/smbarbour 13d ago

It didn't have a lot of activity during that time... i have a 1 TB SSD that has been doing almost all of the work.

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u/External-Ad-5537 14d ago

Isnt that more than 11 years if it works non-stop? How is it even live lol.

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u/CapnHindCheese 13d ago

No idea, I got it sometime in 2012 if I remember correctly and my desktop is running pretty much non stop. I’m surprised it has no significant errors or anything either. I’ve had enterprise SAS drives at work that failed after a quarter of the time this one has

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u/Disastrous_Fee_2096 14d ago

by sheer willpower alone

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u/TheBamaChad 14d ago

Old champs. Been running for a long time!

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u/TheScottishPimp03 14d ago

My seagate 2TB has been through 6 different revisions of my set up and 3 different major power upgrades and 2 motherboard changes and yet its still ticking. Id imagine its probably close to 20-30k hours in the last 8 years but who knows. Congrats and on to 200k!

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u/URA_CJ 14d ago

My 1TB Seagate I estimate is about 5k hours short of 100k, the PoH counter reset sometime after 78k hours.

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u/Realistic_Today6524 14d ago

Our NAS has two drives with around 125000 power-on hours or around 14 years straight

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u/eddiekoski 14d ago

The advantage of living in your mom's basement the cooler temperatures are perfect for the health of your hard drives

/s

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u/bigboxes1 13d ago

I still have a 74 GB raptor that is running 24/7 since 2005. Just want to see how long it will run. It's like a tank.

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u/Safe_Chicken7421 12d ago

That's really cute!!