Immortal Hard Drives?

I have two drives with identical power on count and hours.

They're my oldest running HDDs currently.
Only thing I have with more hours is an SSD.

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>japanimation grills

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not a lot, but check my quad

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get on my level

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My slow ass samsung hard drive will probably outlive me

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *SNIFFFFF*
nothing like that new drive smell

cute HDD is cuuuute!

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? ?

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>"look at my workplace's server"

My main 3 drives in my PC are at 58.4k, 51.6k, and 34.1k hours. No backups, I like to live dangerously.

kys

>adult men
Wrong, we are all anime girls here

>both Seagate and WD Black had reallocated sectors in around 2 years and died shortly after
>Toshiba is 3+ years and still perfect
hopefully it is actually immortal

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>server
wrong
It's my main/desktop/workstation at home that I connect to remotely when I'm at work

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>he pretends he needs a server at home

okay

Niggers not allowed on Jow Forums.

>server

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It's a dual socket e-ATX board meant for servers, just because you put it vertical instead of horizontal and call it a workstation doesn't change what it is.

>e-ATX
fucking brainlet kids
e-ATX isn't even a real standard
It's SSI-EEB

>meant for servers
literally making shit up.
it doesn't even have a IPMI, so it's clearly not a 'server'
further, a server isn't some physical thing. a server is a role or function.
this is why a raspberry pi can be a server
this is why a virtual machine can be a server

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One of my old ladies is showing signs of wear, might need to replace her.

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>e-ATX isn't even a real standard
Tell that to supermicro

supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/x10dax

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they don't make 'em like they used to

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>Tell that to supermicro

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>it's not E-ATX even though the manufacturer says that's what it is.

I can tell you're not a programmer because half of the serious projects on there are anime avatars.

>7200rpm laptop drive

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maybe, if you suspend logic, e-atx is a standard with 5 different variations depending on which vendor makes it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX

>hurr durrr people can't like what i like
also
>where_do_you_think_you_are.jpg

impressive digits but even more impressive anime collection

>5-7 years
>immortal
What? Hard drives are suppose to last a lot longer than that.

My 45MB drive from my 286 PC "died" some years ago
Almost all sectors are still readable though so maybe a format would fix it again

our datacenter banned Crystal Info because this reason, because a old man fap with imaginary pictures

Check out that power on count. They don't make drives like they used to.

Also ignore the temperature, the sensor is faulty. It was a common issue with WDC drives at the time.

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>Check out that power on count
disgusting

anything over 3000 power on count with less than 10 years of power on-time is just no bueno.

L-Lads....
...I was going to ask at /sqt/, or even make my own thread.
But I figure this thread is the best place to ask.

Pls halp, frens - Is the info for the HDD correct? No way it can be an error? Sorry, I am a tech retard.
>Info:
Left, the HDD, is in a spare laptop. Someone gave it to me.
It's an unremarkable consumer-grade ASUS from 2011 or something. The hard drive was dying in 2015, so I replaced it with what you see here. Probably the beginning of 2016.
And as you can see, I haven't used it much.
Yet yesterday I decided to run CrystalDiskInfo just to check how it's doing, and it already says Caution. WTF. Sure it's old but it doesn't have much mileage.

So:
1) Is it definitely true? No way it can be an error?
2) How could it have happened? Contrast it to the SSD in my main laptop. Look at how many more hours and power-ons it has. Aren't SSDs supposed to die quicker anyway? How can the SSD still be in good health after so long yet the hardly used HDD is dying? It was a cheap, bottom of the barrel HDD. Still, it had a decent enough review average on Amazon. And everything else I've had from Toshiba has been nice and reliable. What's happened here - Just plain bad luck? Or was it always going to be this way because it was cheap and bottom of the barrel? The SSD you can see was also the cheapest, bottom of the barrel Toshiba-OCZ SSD I could find, yet that is doing well.

3) I want to replace it with another HDD (not SSD). Probably a 1TB. Or possibly a 500GB size. Help me choose.
a) What brand and models should I look at? Obviously I don't want to go bottom of the barrel again. Seagates seem to be the biggest seller at this level of the market but I remember reading so many bad things about Seagate.
b) Should I go for a 7200rpm, or stick to 5400? What are the downsides of 7200. Shorter lifespan from more wear and tear? Heat? Noise?

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HDDs don't belong in any modern laptop. Get a cheap SSD and a HDD enclosure and put your unimportant stuff on the now external hdd

This is some tranny shit

I want an HDD because when I throw them out I want to wipe them and rest assured they are completely and utterly wiped.
I heard/read that SSDs, even if you DBAN them, can still somehow harbor some of your data is nooks and crannies. I don't want that. I want peace of mind.

So what 2.5" HDD should I get? What model ranges should I look at?

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I have an IBM Deskstar with 50,000 miles on it at work

>HDDs don't belong in any modern laptop
i have one in my P51 and it's pretty comfy

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63398 hours

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Had one at work that had almoust 80 000 hours

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anime is mainstream now and has been for years, retard. it's 2019, not 1999

Dumb cunt.

Whatever you buy don't get a HDD with SMR

Why?

(7 years old laptop drive)

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Because it means you actually turn your PC off regularly.

Disgusting.

bought this hdd for 1$ at thrift store and use it for extra back ups.

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KYS retard

tranny website

why is crystaldiskinfo so large? 150mb for some anime bitches?

I turn it off twice per year. Laptops stop disks to save power, maybe it counts.

I always wondered, what does "Power On Count" actually mean/show? I've thought initially that it must represent the amount of times you've rebooted the system drive, but after doing so several times in a row I've never seen the count rise up any. So what is it?

I would assume so, there are also sounds, so it's not just images.

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that's what it is though. spindown is a different value.

Post your software.

i use a NAS for long term storage so here's my boot drive instead

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I`m starting to see a trend here. Old Samsung Spinpoints taking the cake.

>spindown
My system drive is an SSD, kid.

Thermite is your friend
youtube.com/watch?v=toYk1yJKYTc

One drive in my RAID has been running for >48000h now. It had 2 mates which were as old as it was, I replaced them both when they threw their first unrecoverable read error, the 2nd one I still had running like 3 weeks ago. Both of them still pass a full SMART self-test and don't have bad sectors, but I don't fully trust them anymore.

All i have is a hitachi ide hard drive from 2003

So, if my system drive is an SSD, it means that my "Power On Count" numbers will rise only and ONLY if I completely shut down the system and then start it from the cold boot? Why doesn't it rise when I'm merely rebooting the rig? Does my PSU's extremely long hold-up time has anything to do with that?

Post the Crystal Dick Info for it then fren

>in thread about hard drives
>spindown and power on count are different parameters (power on count obviously being recorded on SSDs, too)
>"nothing personnel, but i have an SSD"

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SSD is also a hard drive, kid.
Not a hard "disc" drive, but a hard drive nonetheless.

I've been using the same two WD Velociraptor 10k RPM drives since 2008 or something.

My Toshiba lasted 1.8 years. The bad sectors had the ones that uBlock used. Luclky uMatrix is good enough and never looked back.

It's a drive, not a hard drive.

Specifically it's a solid state drive.

It's not a hard drive.

Hard means hard magnetic disk as opposed to floppy magnetic disk. You know what is a floppy disk, right? Right?

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Reboot every 30hours
Reboot every 120hours
Reboot every 14hours
Reboot every 91hours
Reboot every 116hours
>get on my level
Reboot every 27 hours. Not impressive.
Reboot every 13hours
Reboot every 2 hours good lord
Reboot every 22 hours
Reboot every 70 hours
Reboot every 85 hours
Reboot every 3 hours
Reboot every 2 hours
Reboot every 8 hours
Reboot every 1 hour (pathetic)
Reboot every 1 hour
Reboot every 3 hours
Reboot every 32 hours
Reboot every 10 hours
Reboot every 4 hours
Reboot every 116 hours
Reboot every 5 hours (i rounded up)
Reboot every 7 hours

And the Winrar is me:
Reboot every 281hours

>Reboot
it's an external drive

Not really immortal that one, is it?

What's your point?

Solid state means hard state.

Hard means solid form. Anything that's not gas or fluid - is hard/solid.

>uptimelets don't understand

Yes. I mean, should they die sooner with less reboots?

>should they die sooner with less reboots?
the power and temperature cycle kills the drive more than the runtime

It's worse to shut down the system drive all the time, than to run it 24/7 for several months straight. Especially for SSDs.

AHEM

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I came

guess you win the thread
post pics?

Yes, but reboots don't do that.

For SSDs it literally does not matter.

>if I do math, people will notice me!
have sex

plus I doubt I've had that many bootups
I think it's counting going to sleep and waking up again as a bootup
Which is stupid

Suspends count as "power off".
Who leaves their computer on all the time? You put it to sleep, when you sleep.

There should be two categories for servers and desktops, because looking at these drives, it's all mixed up.

Putting system into a sleep state while running it off an SSD, is literally the worst thing ever for an SSD.