Storage: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer?
- 5/29/09 3:59 PM
Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 5/29/09 3:59 PM
How old is the hard drive in your current computer?
Less than a year old (What brand and capacity?)
1 year (What brand and capacity?)
2 years (What brand and capacity?)
3 years (What brand and capacity?)
4 years (What brand and capacity?)
5 years (What brand and capacity?)
6 years (What brand and capacity?)
More than 6 years old (What brand and capacity?)
Current Hard Drive status
by OLD BLUE - 5/29/09 6:34 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am currently running a 1TB MyBook usb, a Maxtor 750 usb, A Western Digital 500G and 3 Western Digital 1TB "green" drives, all under 1 year
How old is the hard drive in your current computer?
by Bruce Pattinson - 5/29/09 6:40 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Quantum Fireball as40.0 ( 40 gb.)(7 years old) and a wdc ac31200f (1.18 gb.) (about 10 years old. Both seem to work really well.
hard drive
by mike godbey - 6/4/09 4:50 PM In reply to: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Bruce PattinsonI use a E-machine (w4685 ) it is over 4 years old with 80gb, an 512mb ram still wors fine
More than one HDD in my PC
by AusROM - 5/29/09 6:45 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Actually I have Four Internal drives and three external.
I am a gamer. 
All my Internals are Western Digital...
1x 1TB SATA
2x 320GB SATA
1x 500GB SATA
Externals are...
1x 120GB IDE Western Digital (5 years old)
1x 320GB SATA " " (6 months old)
1x 200GB IDE Seagate (5 years old)
Hard drives
by Silvertop - 5/29/09 7:08 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a WD 750G Black edition in use as my main drive and a Samsung spinpoint 1T as a backup external drive. The WD was purchased last month along with the Samsung. I will change both drives in 18 months. That way I have never had a drive fail. The external drive is in a case with a fan and runs at 33C and the internal WD runs at 31C. Both are SATA 2 drives.
So far...
by Willy - 5/29/09 7:08 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
500gb Seagate HD at around 1yr. old. It replaced a 120gb WD HD that was 3yrs. old. Now, the 500gb is working great and so far no glitches and I like the 5yr. warranty period.
Anything below 20gb gets tossed or seriously considered for that or recycling. They're noisy anyways, alot of the time. -----Willy
My old drives & old computer
by AnalogGuru - 5/29/09 7:21 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
20 MB IBM - 8 years old
80 MB WD - 4 years old
This is my current working computer, running Win 2000 on a 600 MHZ P4 with 786 MB Ram. Think I got my money's worth.
About to retire entire system & replace with Core 2 Duo, 4 MB Ram, three 160 MB WD drives, and will run 32 bit XP, Vista, and Ubuntu.
Three-year-old hard drive here...
by cdadave - 5/29/09 7:22 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't know about brands of hard drives, but I've been using an HP Pavilion 6000 laptop, with 80GB hard drive and 512MB System memory since early '07... I use the computer mainly for e-mail, E-bay, photo posting and plain-old surfing in general, which means that I am largely irrelevant compared to those who use their computers for Huge Mighty Business-related stuff. I'm sure my computer is antiquated by this year's standards, but it just keeps right on truckin', despite the fact that I have birds, which means that more than just a few seed kernels have become embedded in the keyboard over the years (a Tekkie nightmare for sure). Sometimes when I press a key, I hear "crrrunch", so I turn the computer upside down, shake it (gently) a few times, the seed shell(s) fall(s) out and so far, my 'puter is still alive n' kickin'. Even tho my hard-drive is only 80GB, I am still amazed at download speeds with my notebook, as opposed to the (dinosaur) desktop I used to have, with dial-up. I do like my wireless. It spoils me...
My old drives & old computer - Correction
by AnalogGuru - 5/29/09 7:50 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Must be a little tired.
All the drives listed in my previous post are GB, not MB.
Aged Hard Drive
by kingfyre - 5/29/09 7:56 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
120GB Hitachi (IBM) DeskStar, between 7 and 8 years old.
The average usage is aprox. 12 Hrs./day, 365 days/year.
The last 2 years, the unit has been powered 24/7 with
seasonal power interruptions for brief periods of time.
Under these conditions, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor
and Fujitsu only last 6 months to slightly over a year.
Hard drive stats
by buckster10 - 5/29/09 8:05 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Compaq Presario, 140GB HD,AMD Sempron 3400+, 1.99GHz, Six years old and still crankin'
SAMSUNG
by Lumpy95 - 5/29/09 8:07 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've had a Samsung 80 GB IDE drive running since 2003, used every day.
I shut it down at night and boot in the morning.
Hard Drive Report
by patrick706 - 5/29/09 9:13 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Maxtor OneTouch II Disk (203.92 GB) -- drive 4
External Backup -- 4 years old
WD 5000KS External USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 3
External Backup 18 months old
WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0 [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 2, s/n
Data Drive 2 -- 4 years old
WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0 [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n
Original C Drive -- now internal backup drive -- 4 years old
WDC WD7501AALS-00J7B0 [Hard drive] (750.15 GB) -- drive 1
New C Drive -- 3 months old
Hard Drive Report (Tower #2)
by patrick706 - 5/29/09 9:19 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Western Digital 300 gb (10,000 rpm model) 6 months old
C Drive running Vista 64 Ult
Western Digital Caviar (250 gb)
5 years old
used for secondary system backup
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