Storage What's oldest Hard drive you have ?

Probably got a while yet before you get near that figure. Samsung F3's have a MTBF of 500,000 hours!

 

That makes me feel better. But mine are Hitachi drives!

Got another 7 years worth of use before they are likely to throw up any issues, I have a feeling they wont be in front line service in another three.

 

I think you get less problems if the drives are constantly running. I'm pretty sure the wear comes from the start/stop power cycles.

 

Seems that way, all "healthy" drives I have seen fail have always gone during a reboot / boot.

Thankfully none have been my own personal drives.

 

Ah, had that. Fond memories, was such a cool hard drive

Hmm, oldest being used... Probably the 6-or-so GB Quantum Fireball in my old Cobalt Cube...

 

Oldest in use Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250 GB and that's only rarely used in the test bench.

On the main rig the oldest is Samsung F1 1TB. I just hate excess drives and the noise they make.

 

I love that! Pah, who needs solid state! You dont get any more solid than that!

 

I've got an IDE 3.2GB from a PC I fried - still has files on it, but it's not used often. - Noisy as hell

 

At the weekend found an old IDE drive that had a capacity of 250GB and was made at the very start of 2003!

I must have been really cutting edge that week.

 

My boot drive is a IBM 30Gb 7200RPM form 1999 and it makes the worst clunking sound ever it makes my case shake!!

 

I still have an old 3.5gd HDD somewhere it's from an old pc it had win95 on it