Should this be even possible?

Dabombinable · March 7, 2016

I've had several refurbished ex-server Samsung Spinpoint HA250JC for about a year now, and I've only really just had a close look at how long they've been powered on. Apparently the most used of the 4 drives (1 is dead, 1 has the connector broken) has had over 7.2 years (63935 hours) use and only been power on 579 times.

Now I know that the MTBF of the latest HDD can be in the millions of hours, but this is only a 250GB IDE HDD, with every single one of my other HDD, ranging from 1992 (good old 80MB HDD) right up to a 2009 320GB Toshiba SATA II HDD, plus all of the main manufacturers (WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Quantum, Toshiba), that's lasted more than 3 years let alone over 7.

Epiclol86 · March 7, 2016

this is IMPOSSIBLE! BURN THE WITCH!

Burnedice25 · March 7, 2016

Some one or mabie you made a bios tweak and it caused a bug?

alexhelvetica · March 7, 2016

I grabbed got a computer from the side of the road. It has a dead motheboard and hadn't been turned on since 2014. The 2 HDDs has over 3 years of usage and there was torrents and illegal downloads on both of the HDDs. I am guessing they did no stop torrenting for 3 years straight and the Thermaltake TR2 couldn't live with that, so it died and killed the motherboard along with it.

About 90% of the on time, of this poor old 2.6GHz Pentium 4 computer was non stop torrenting. Servers don't go down, Torrenting PC's do.