HDD Life? How long has yours lasted?

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Fouchey

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I've been interested in how long an HDD will actually last if taken care of. The most common answer is "HDDs can die at any time.." but I've never had a single one die/break/lose data or anything similar. My current desktop has been running with the same HDD since 2005-2006 and is running most of the day though I have it set to hibernation at night. Just replaced my laptop HDD with an SSD and turned it into an external, no problems with that(2-3 years old). Some people say they last around 3 years up to 5 if you're lucky?
 
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My desktop has a 300GB OS drive that was purchased in March 2006. The data drive is a 500GB that was purchased 8 months later. Running strong. The 500GB has been showing 1 bad sector for the better part of 6 months but hasn't gotten worse and works fine.

I have the OS installation mirrored to an ATA 40GB Seagate that was probably purchased back in 01 or 02 and it is fine, too.

I've never lost a drive that was sitting in the case of a working system. If I lost 'em it was because I dropped it or it failed after I pulled it out of a working sytem to pop into an enclosure or different computer. Probably static discharge or just shaking them too hard. Even then, it's very rare.
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mauller07

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you can run them into the ground untill they die basically.

i have had drives last for over 6 years, even when thrashing them.
i have also had drives die in 2 years when thrashing them.

i only ever tend to buy western digital black drives because they just last.
 
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My desktop has a 300GB OS drive that was purchased in March 2006. The data drive is a 500GB that was purchased 8 months later. Running strong. The 500GB has been showing 1 bad sector for the better part of 6 months but hasn't gotten worse and works fine.

I have the OS installation mirrored to an ATA 40GB Seagate that was probably purchased back in 01 or 02 and it is fine, too.

I've never lost a drive that was sitting in the case of a working system. If I lost 'em it was because I dropped it or it failed after I pulled it out of a working sytem to pop into an enclosure or different computer. Probably static discharge or just shaking them too hard. Even then, it's very rare.
 
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I've got a pair of 7200 seagate 320gb sata1 drives that have been running in raid0 mode for 10yrs. They aren't trusted to mainline data storage anymore so they run my Linux OS for when I need it. I'm still amazed they haven't had even 1 bad sector yet. I been playing a linux beta test game all weekend and yes they are noticably slower than a modern drive but they still do decent.
 
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