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Hey all so i was doing some research of hard drive "power on time" and i found this little line on google

 

"the total expected life-time of a hard disk is 5 years" or 43,800 hours of constant use.

 

as i was worrying about my harddrive "Until" i seen this so my hard drive specs and power on time is.....

 

Manufacturer    Seagate
Form Factor    1.8"
Heads    16
Cylinders    91,201
Tracks    23,256,255
Sectors    1,465,144,065
SATA type    SATA-II 3.0Gb/s
Device type    Fixed
ATA Standard    ACS2
Serial Number    S2SUJ9CC900928
Firmware Version Number    2AR10002
LBA Size    48-bit LBA
Power On Count    8025 times
Power On Time    698.0 days
Speed    5400 RPM
Features    S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode    SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode    SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Interface    SATA
Capacity    698 GB
Real size    750,156,374,016 bytes
RAID Type    None

 

very interested of what everyones elses specs and power on time is

post below :D

 

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Drives can last upto 10-12 years even with almost constantly be in a running computer but I don't trust them after 6-8

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Hdd failure is pretty random, so there isn't a cut off at 5 years, it just normally by then, the drive is old enough, and newer drives are cheaper and faster and bigger. Id say now, its find to keep it longer. I have many drives with 80k+ hours still running fine.

 

 

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Just now, ComputerTech said:

yeah same here well my pc is only 7 years old , and by you mean 6-8 years as on 24/7 ?

my parents WD green last from 2009-2018 before failing but I do have 2008 date coded ones that still work. its mostly just random when they'll die unless you do something like drop them.

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1 minute ago, ComputerTech said:

yeah same here well my pc is only 7 years old , and by you mean 6-8 years as on 24/7 ?

 

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thats amazing Electronics Wizardy

Normally there only talking about on hours, but like anything, it will wearout just sitting there, but much slower.

 

Make sure to keep backups, it can fail at any time.

 

If this is a boot drive, get a ssd, they will be so much faster, but if it works, id keep using it.

 

 

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true

 

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oh yeah i will, i am relieved and wondered by this info i found

 

i did not know they would last as long as such +40000 hours

since thats nearly unbelivable

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again also a question of hard drives

 

how strong are hard drive disks?

like same strength of a dvd disk?

 

and has anyone ever really had a issue with the hard drive disk physically breaking?

 

my hard drive is only running 800 days so it's young, just asking these questions because i am interested :D

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