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- 5/29/09 3:59 PM
How old id the hard drive in your current computer?
by wshredder - 5/31/09 10:16 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I just replaced the 40 gig hard drive with a new Seagate 500 gig hard drive about 2 months ago. The old Western Digital had over 25000 hours according to my diagnostics software and seemed to be working okay, but it kept failing one of the SMART tests that I ran on it. (I used three, WD's, Seagate's, and Lenovo's). I was advised to replace it as it was dying.
I have other hard drives that are older then the 40 gig WD and they are still perking along.
Hard disks in use
by Niftydog - 5/31/09 12:18 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Two Quantum (about 6 six years old)18 gig U 320 SCSI disks, one 7200 rpm and other 10.000 rpm.
One maxtor 80 gig SATA 2 about 3 years old.
All working ok.
how old is your hard drive?
by jean harrington - 5/31/09 3:47 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought it in Dec 2002 and use it at least 12+ hours a day.Dell, pentium 4,very little space.This year, I have not been turning it off, only the monitor.My computer is the only contact I have with the outside world.My plain 98 computer still boots fine, tho' it's not connected to internet.I love XP, which is why I have not bought a new computer.
2 Seagate 250GB (RAID 1) in this computer and 4 in a new PC
by fdunn3 - 5/31/09 7:31 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I was fortunate enough to buy 8 250GB ES (not ES.2) SATAII drives. I use hardware RAID controllers and have RAID 1 in this PC and in a new PC I built and have been burning in for about 2 Months now I have a 3ware 4 port PCIe 4 lane controller running the same drives in RAID 0+1.
I am anxiously anticipating the upcoming Constellation ES drives from Seagate as the Barracuda ES.2 drives are just not reliable, no matter the firmware update.
I bought another 3ware controller but this time I am going to put 500GB enterprise drives set up as RAID 0+1 as I run these 24x7.
I have been tempted to switch to WD BLACK RE3 but I am going to wait and see whether Seagates reliability gets better.
I have had these drives in this system for about 4 years, and in the new system for about 4 months.
Life of My PC's Hard Drive
by drnaeemawan - 5/31/09 11:40 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Its more than 6 years old.Kingston 80Gb
The oldest is five years, but I just replaced it.
by the Otter - 6/1/09 7:11 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My main computer has two mirrored RAIDs. Until about a month ago, the smaller one was two 160GB Seagate drives, but I have now replaced them both with 500GB Seagates. The larger one was three 500GB Seagate drives, so now I have five identical Seagates internally. (I also have two external Firewire enclosures: a 320GB for the system RAID and a 500GB for the rest.)
My mail server has two 160GB drives that should be in a mirrored RAID, but for some reason I can’t get them to do it. Odd, that. My iServer has two 160GB drives for the system and two 1500GB Seagates for the data. Once my new Firewire enclosure comes in, I’ll also have a 1500GB Seagate for backup.
My wife’s laptop has an 80GB internal drive, which will soon be backed up wirelessly (using Time Machine) to a 320GB USB-enclosed Seagate.
(Not all of my drives are Seagate, btw, but I’ve been happy enough with them that that’s what I usually buy.)
Which one ?
by H-bound - 6/2/09 1:49 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
on my HTPC there's an 80 GB Maxtor ca. 10 years old
on my main machine I have six (+1) drives from 6yrs (80GB Maxtor S-ATA) -> about 2weeks (LaCie external w/ a Hitachi drive)
...
oh.. and then there's the "dinosaur" w/ a 6.4GB Quantum Fireball
Drives and ages
by tbweld - 6/3/09 8:09 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
3 months ago, I replaced an 80GB internal Western Digital (4 yrs old) with a 350 GB WD. I ran out of space. It installed great and my computer ran at twice the speed it did previously. I also have a 170 GB internally installed (2 years old) that I added for data storage when my 80 GB was having difficulty. It turned out to be RAM problems not hard drive issues. I've never had a hard drive fail.
harddrive
by leemc79 - 6/4/09 10:25 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
ST320011A 20.40GB Driveo S/N 3HT172PW HP VECTRA 420 S/N US15104863 what is compatable with this want to get new one. My comp. is used. Thank you
The Poll
by youngwade - 6/7/09 4:58 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The poll does not factor in the age of the whole computer.
HARD DISC LIFE AND MAINTENANCE METHOD & TASKS
by A D Venkateswaran - 6/11/09 6:05 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought a HCL make brand BEANSTALK4458 P4 8GHZ PC manufactured in Jan 2005. The HDD spec was 80GB ATA/100IDE HDD 7200 RPM. If I remeber correctly it was a SEA GATE brand.
This was replaced on 10th Jun 2009 by a WD IDE 80 GB HDD.supplied by the manufacturer of PC, namely HCL_Delhi; the old one was removed on 27 th May and sent to the factory as per their procedure for PCs on Annual Maintenance Conract and replacement was received on 9th or 10th Jun '09 and installed on 10th evening.
The earlier one had failed a couple of times and I had coaxed its working by various methods including establishing (correct phrase?)recovery points periodically.
In fact the service engineer removed it wihout informing me and took it away for replacement. If he had given notice I could have transferred lots of files to my portable storage device recently purchased for taking up data particularly photos and interesting mails.
Incidentally, I am not trained in operating a PC but bought one in 2002 after fully retiring from active work and learnt procedures and methods since then, I could have punished the machine by rough handling and usage too. I used "do it yourself" books to guide me, the latest being Alan Simpson's Windows XP Bible
the longest for mine was..
by FrankQC - 6/12/09 10:10 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
.. 7 years.
OEM Compaq Hard Drive. It was like 40GB or something. I miss Compaq 
Seagate Medalist 8.4 GB over 13 years old
by Photogmomma - 6/29/09 5:30 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is the hard drive in your current computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have running what I think is my oldest HDD that is still in everyday use at the head of my network, its a Seagate Medalist 8.4 GB. Its been running 24/7 for the last 10'ish years and 10 to 15 hours a day for the 3 to 4 years before that, so its well over 13 years old.
I have been posting about this drive at another forum and there is all of the SMART data there, but the overall numbers are... The overall fitness for this drive is 70%. The overall performance for this drive is 97%.
its doing quite well ...even if I say so myself.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f122/flash-memory-ever-replace-hdd-149068/index3.html#post2253625
A quick count up of my drives goes, 4x 1 TB and 2x 320 GB Hitachi DS's, 150 GB Raptor and 200 GB Maxtor PATA boot drive in this box, and across the other 3 that make up my main workstations. I have 8x 200 GB Maxtor PATA's (I got 10 about 5~6 years ago and 2 a few years later, 160 GB WD for boot, and 4x 360 GB Segate's, 2x 74 GB Raptors and a 250 GB that are being used everyday. Then an older box (800 MHz slot A) that has a 160 GB a few 80's and a 30 GB.
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