12 years and 11 months of powered-on time for this SSD… I should definitely turn it on for another month lol
10 years powered-on time for this HDD. Who says HDDs aren’t reliable? 😂
Anyone got better numbers than these?
I just hope you’ve got backups 🙂
Seriously though, we found an old Dell server at work that hadn’t been rebooted for years.
We knew that it was fine whilst it was running, but the stress of a reboot would finish it off with all those POST fan speed tests, RAID array tests, etc.
We took as much data off it that we thought might be relevant and rebooted it.
1 drive failed immediately. 1 fan must’ve had all the dust as that blew out a cloud during the fullspeed test.
A few days later more drives started failing and it just gradually died.
It was actually a sad day when we powered it off for the last time. 🥲
About a decade ago, I did some contract work for a local credit union upgrading some of their systems and one of their secondary servers had an old Maxtor drive that had over 31 years of uptime on it. It was wild because at the time, that drive had been running constantly longer than I had been alive.
Fuuuukkkk…
Longer uptime than you’d been alive!
That’s legit the only reason I still remember it. I had just turned 30 a few weeks beforehand, and it had at least a year and a few months on me.
Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032 000 100 000 Old_age Always - 46892h+00m+00.000s
Power_On_Hours 0x0032 042 042 000 Old_age Always - 50812
Power_On_Hours 0x0032 044 044 000 Old_age Always - 49082
some of my higher ones… ~6 years continous
About the only thing I have in that range would be an old Connor CP30174E from the 90’s. It doesn’t get any use tho. I framed in in a shadow box for display along with some other drives that I disassembled and display as a curio. I just think they’re neat.
root@kamidake:~# for i in /dev/sd? ; do echo $i; smartctl -a $i |grep Hours| awk ’ { print $10/8760}'; done
/dev/sda
15.6055
/dev/sdb
15.6979
/dev/sdc
6.04909
/dev/sdd
7.35708
/dev/sde
10.618
/dev/sdf
7.28071
/dev/sdg
10.5689
/dev/sdh
10.6264
/dev/sdi
2.28311
/dev/sdj
10.7498
/dev/sdk
10.5832
/dev/sdl
7.35502
/dev/sdm
10.643
/dev/sdn
10.8016
/dev/sdo
10.7558
/dev/sdp
9.11416
root@kamidake:~#
These are running ZFS and I have 2 other boxes with similar, most in the 10-12 year range. Spinning drives.
Good stuff.
I just had to replace a 4tb drive with a mfgyr of 2016 from a customer’s Synology box.
I couldn’t get SMART data off it because it wouldn’t initialize to do a test, but the thing was damn reliable right up until it went kaput.
LifeTime(Hours) apparently rolled over on a couple of my drives. One of them has about 12 years and five months on the Head_Flying_Hours counter, so at least that.
I don’t understand this whole thing about years of uptime. Don’t you ever get system/security/kernel updates that require a reboot?
This isn’t about continued uptime. It’s total time on. Rebooting doesn’t reset this figure.
