Storage: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer?
- 5/29/09 3:59 PM
Running Both Vista and Ubuntu
by codecutr - 5/29/09 9:37 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm using a 320GB Seagate (< 1 YO), two WD 120GB drives (Ubuntu & Win Backups (Both 5+ YO). CPU is AMD Athlon X2 5000+ with 2 GB RAM. (Custom built 'puter)
My external drive is WD 500GB (< 1 YO) in an Antec MX-1 case. It sits on my shelf most of the time.
Drives
by TrackStar1682 - 5/29/09 10:28 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Two Seagate 80 GB drives, one about a year old, one over three years old
One external drive, a 500 GB WD My Book Home Edition eSATA, just about a year old.
All this with a Core2 Duo E8400, 8 GB of RAM and a GeForce GTS 250!
new Western Digital 320GB EIDE hard drive
by arcforce - 5/29/09 11:07 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought a new WD 320GB EIDE hard drive after my old (8 years)Seagate
ST380011A Barracuda 7200.7(80GB) died. I went to their website and found out that the Barracuda 7200 series can fail to reboot if you suffer a blackout. I found this out after surfing through volumes of technical data of dubious merit. I will never buy a Seagate hard drive ever again, or a Maxtor hard drive either, as Seagate owns Maxtor also.
Disks
by Roytje1989 - 5/30/09 3:08 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have 3 disks in my computer. 2 disks of 500 GB (RAID 0) and one disk of 1 TB. All the diks are less then a year.
A relic by the computer industry standards!
by not-a-clue - 5/30/09 5:01 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Original Maxtor 80GB HD from factory. Running a Sony PCV-RX-650. Hard drive going on (10) yrs' old and running great. Have downloaded and run "Sea Tools, DiscWizard" drive seems to be as healthy as a new one from what test results state and I have NO problem with it.
Also run an external SeaGate Fre Agent GO 250GB that is less than one year but expect and hope it will outlive and perform well past it's (5) yr. warranty.
How old is the drive in your current computer?
by devo2u - 5/30/09 6:19 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Currently using a SATA 640gb Western Digital as primary drive, it is less than a year old. I have 2 slaves both are 160gb Maxtor's, one is 3 1/2 years old and the other 2 years old. The 3 1/2 year old Maxtor was my primary up until 2 months ago. Both Maxtor's are IDE's and have been quite dependable over the years, no problems whatsoever.
My Other Current PC
by tdkwhaley - 5/30/09 6:40 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1999 Compaq Presario 5220 - 8gb HD - Stills runs Great as a GUEST PC. Running DSL on this PC, with 2 wireless as well with no problem!
2007 HP Media Center PC - 3 HDs just kept crapping out - Manufacturing Defect. Finally HP replaced with Western Digital Caviar. It has been 2 years.
HP Desktop + Seagate External
by Bobcattoo - 5/30/09 7:15 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
HP Pavilion a630n 160GB (5 yrs and counting)
Seagate 250 GB External (2 yrs and counting)
Apple Laptop 80 GB (2 yrs and counting)
I've got 4 (well, 5)...
by Launchpad_72 - 5/30/09 7:25 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've never had a hard drive of my own fail on me before.
My primary tower has 4 drives in it: 120GB SATA first gen, 250GB SATA2, 1TB SATA2, 40GB ATA. None have ever failed me before. I've also got an old 60GB ATA on an external sled.
The 40GB (which has a copy of Ubuntu on it) is pushing 9 years, and it's still going strong. Of course, it's pretty noisy, as the drive was made back when they had no concept of drive acoustics.
For comparison, I've got an Apple IIGS on my bench (which I still use for oregon trail and number munchers when I get bored) has a 20MB card-based drive in it, and it's still going strong, along with the 5.25" and 3.5" drives and the ImageWriter II SCSI printer.
My client's hard drives, on the other hand, fail all the time. I've found that the main causes are rough handling of the tower (anger management?) and accumulation of dust (where's the drive? I can't see it!)
As long as you take care of the physical hardware, your system should last indefinitely. (Either that, or I'm incredibly lucky.)
And a laptop...
by Launchpad_72 - 5/30/09 7:30 AM In reply to: I've got 4 (well, 5)... by Launchpad_72Almost forgot, I've also got a 10GB 2.5" drive in my old Inspiron 2500 that's 9+ years, and has taken multiple falls, bumps, and bruises. Twice now, the laptop has survived a two-story fall to concrete while on, and there's still NO errors whatsoever. (Yes, this was intentional. The laptop's outlived it's usefulness, and we were taking bets on how much it could survive. To this day, it still runs.)
The HDD in My computer is:
by steelburner - 5/30/09 10:00 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My internal HDD is a two-year-old WD 250GB Caviar. My backup is another 2-yo WD 250GB Caviar on another machine on my network. Photos and music are stored on either an external, old 120GB WD PATA drive or onto archival-quality Verbatim DVDs.
Backing up to another machine really pays off if you have a network and the capacity. I have three: Machine A backs up to Machine B, Machine B to Machine C and Machine C to Machine A. If all three fail simultaneously, we've just been nuked by a foreign power, and I don't give a hoot about my data any more ...
10 years old
by Hookman843 - 5/30/09 11:14 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Compaq Presario 5500z Desktop 650Mz-20G HD-384MB memory-Win98SE OS-5500 3DFX Voodoo graphics card.
I keep it's Manitu happy and have enjoyed it since day one
(NT) 5 years - Samsung 60 GB
by dexter_birdbrain - 5/30/09 12:04 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Over 10 years, (Seagate 120g)
by Reinstall - 5/30/09 1:18 PM In reply to: (NT) 5 years - Samsung 60 GB by dexter_birdbrainI'm running a raid config with two stripped Seagate Barracuda's, 120 g, liquid bearing, whisper quiet drives on a windows machine that runs everyday fro at least ~six hours.
No problems yet, of course I back up religiously.
My Hard Drive cofiguration
by Bkess - 5/30/09 2:44 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Internal: 40GB Seagate, 5 years old (it's the original drive in my Dell desstop). Operates 16 hours per day, everyday.
External: 250GB Seagate FreeAgent, 2 years old. Only used for backup so only connected/turned on for less than an hour once a month or so.
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