So /g/, how long do you usually keep your HDDs for before

5 years

>>52394528
10 years

ive had my main hdd for 8 years so a while

>>52394490

Until the coppers come

Generally when they upgrade,
SATA will be the new IDE in a few years

4 years

>>52394490
Honestly I've never had an HDD die. I still have a 90mb drive from '93ish in my rig. Shit better not go out either because I haven't backed up my midi collection in 20 years.

>>52394490
12 hours max

>>52394490
I never truly replace them, they just get lost after I upgrade/sell my computers. I'd say about 6 years.

>>52394670
not relevant to the thread, nigger

Mine's been holding up for a solid 5.5 years, how soon until it starts to croak? I should probably back up everything.

It's a 1 TB samsung drive from 2010.

>have seagate 1,3, and 4TB
>no problems

>WD Black 2TB
>feels slow as fuck and the OS isn't even on it

Must be reverse meme magic

>>52394490
I only replace them when they die

I replace then when I die

>>52394738
I got one around that time and it croaked on me in 2012, I left it laying around and was able to retrieve most of the data off it a few months ago. Yours will probably last you a good while though. I have garbage luck with hard drives

>>52394738
I got one around that time and it croaked on me in 2012, I left it laying around and was able to retrieve most of the data off it a few months ago. Yours will probably last you a good while though. I have garbage luck with hard drives

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>>52394858
>>52394863
How the hell did I manage to post that twice??

Till it craps out. I keep all my files backed up in a cloud in case of drive failure.

>>52394753
Blacks aren't the fastest buddy even Blues are faster, they're just more reliable.
Have a 500GB black from 2008 still running fine and I don't plan to replace it anytime soon.

Until it dies

Fresh from the box I first freeze them for 3 days in a hermetically pressurized container. Once I decide to use the drive it lasts as long as it takes the drive to reach room temperature. I then throw it out as I consider that thoroughly melted.

Till death click oclock

>>52394490
till the magic wears out and the remember disks forget

>>52394630
B A C K U P
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I replace them when they get full.

Until they die

>>52395053
The oldest in my array's from 2011. I hardly use that array and it's been unpowered for almost a year now.
It's raid 1'd, but I'm not turning it back on till I have something to dump both drives onto. Maybe swap one of the drives to something more recent. Then I'll probably trust it for a few more years, till it's dead and gone.

>>52395421
Didn't mean to reply, excuse bump.

>>52394543
Are u me? Almost 8 years now it's Seagate st250 and st320 something. Why older stuff is way more reliable than a new one? My new 1tb die quickly less than a year.

>>52394490
2 drives died. One external the other fucked up. the one was so fucking trashed it had bad sectors on it. Fuck staples never going there anymore back to online biatch

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Until it turns around tells me to fuck off

>mfw my seashit 7200.11 1.5tb has had smart warnings for 3 years but still just werks

>>52394886
>blues are faster than blacks

Since fucking when? Every benchmark I've seen puts the blacks near the top 3 at least.

how do i check my hdds heath /g/? one of them starting making sounds

Have old server from 1996 that is still running 24/7, original 2x2.1Gb drives so I guess drives can last like decades with proper PSU and cooling.

>>52397267
SMART tests my friend. You can check it with CrystalDiskInfo.

I had a 2TB WD green from like 2009, and a laptop 500GB WD from 2008 that I'm using as a backup in the same rig. Both still going strong.

>>52397339
have*

>>52397267
just get hard disk sentinel

>>52394490
I run them into the ground. Anything important has at least one backup on a newer drive or array so I never lose anything critical (anymore). I learned that lesson the hard way during the Great Hard Drive Failure of 2013.

>>52397379
Tell us the story of this failure

How do 2 WD Blue 1TB drives in raid 1 perform?

>>52394490

i got a barricuda thats from 07 in my main rig

>>52394490
Until they show bad sectors or other SMART errors indicative of life threatening issues.

a thread about harddrives.

I LOVE HARDDRIVES

i got like 25 of them i have collected the past 5+ years.

i love storing stuff on them.

i love checking their powered on time and their health. they are almost like my babies

I have this F3 spin point 1TB Samsung drive from a couple of years back. I patched it yesterday from destructive failure bug. SMART test indicated error in Spin Up Time. The error is gone after patching.

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>>52398765
this is why i come to this website

Usually until they die, but I recently replaced the (live, still ticking) mdadm RAID on my old Hitachi 7K2000s with a set of those UltraStar He6 helium-filled 6TB drives + dm-crypt aes-256-xts + btrfs RAID-6.

They perform very nicely for my needs: of course, only time will tell if they're as reliable.

>>52398727
This.
I recently replaced a pair of 9 years old HDDs because SMART showed they were reallocating sectors.

>>52394577
With what replacing it?

>>52399215
ssd

I hate harddrives so much, I am using WD Blue for storing shit and it makes both the case and the table vibrate, despite being screwed into some rubber in the hdd bay.
Can't wait for SSDs to become cheap as fuck

>>52398727
>>52399079
>tfw have a 6ish year old refurbished Seagate 7200.11 1.5tb that has been showing reallocations 5 years ago and it still just weeks

All data on there is obviously backed up daily for obvious reasons but its just become more of an experiment now as to how long it'll live. It's pretty fast still too.

I refresh my hard drives every week

>>52400028

You fucking retard.

>>52400028
>SATA will be replaced by SSD

What the flying fuck am I reading.

>>52394886
>>52397069

Blues can be faster than Blacks but only if they have fewer platters, otherwise the Blacks are a bit faster.

However, WD has stopped developing Blacks for their speed, the technology is now focused primarily on reliability, that's why the Blacks have an enterprise-class warranty period (5 years).

>>52402399
>WD has stopped developing Blacks for their speed, the technology is now focused primarily on reliability
Tell that to my brand new 6TB WD Black. 230-ish MB/s read speed and 220-ish MB/s write.

>>52402751
Is that in theory or the results of your test? Because a 6TB drive is going to have a damn load of platters inside of it.

>>52402780
That's what the benchmarks and most of the reviews say. It is much faster than the other drives in my bay.

>>52402751
>tfw my £65 3tb Toshiba gets ~190

Feels good

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>>52402799
benchmark it yourself.

>>52402859
I will once it arrives.
I'm going to put it into a Hyperduo array with three 240GB Kingston Savage SSDs in Performance mode (all three SSDs acting as cache) to act as my games drive.

>>52402946
Why not just put games directly on the SSDs?

>>52403026
Because I have nearly 4TB of games and I'm planning to expand my library this summer.
My own experience with Hyperduo shows that two SSDs and a 1TB HDD gives you about 80-90% of the performance of the SSDs in your array.

>>52394490
10 years minimum.
Some drives in my shitboxes have been going for 25+

>>52395447
I have an 8 year old st250. Still works great.

4x4tb WD reds under windows server 2012. Simple 2x2 mirrors or striped mirrors?

What are the ups and downs other than read/write speed?

>>52403026
Also, buying 6TB worth of SSD costs about five times as much as the array I've set up. 80% of the performance for a fraction of the cost.

>>52403068
>Because I have nearly 4TB of games and I'm planning to expand my library this summer.

Do you really have to have it all installed? Do you actually play all of those games?

>>52403138
If you don't have a raid card, don't even consider traditional raid.

>>52403367
I don't want traditional raid. I want to do it using storage spaces.

>>52394490
12-20 years

>>52403344
I have "random game nights" at my place twice every week. We pick a random video game and take turns playing it until we pass out from alcohol. So we end up playing whatever's already installed because intoxication waits for no install times.

>>52394490
You make backups and replace it when it fails
nice bait tho, 4/10

>>52403138
Striped mirrors will have a faster read speed. Mirrors by themselves only protect against faults, not necessarily corruption.

Also don't confuse mirroring with backup. If your server gets run over with a dump truck it doesn't matter how much redundancy you have in your RAID.

>>52403735
Already have offsite backup

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until it dies
> pic related

>>52403536
This guy fucking gets it. I do something similar but I only have 1.5tb of games on a 2tb WD black. got another 2tb filled with porn and television shows. Getting a 6tb as well.

I gave away my old 1tb WD blue to my brother but it had no problems. Only drives I've had fair so far was a laptop drive because I dropped it in a drunken stupor and an old 32gb SSD that died out of no where