Who's got the hardest working hard drive?

[Dos_Box]

After finally biting the bullet the other week I finally, once my new 1TB M.2 Samsung SSD arrived, went down the Windows 11 route now that most of the issues have been addressed.

Once reinstalled, and out of pure curiosity I used Crystal Disk Info to see just how much my old SSD (a Samsung 850 Pro SATA drive) had been working as my boot drive. Turns out it's been running for 9836 hours (just shy of 410 days). For an 8 year old drive I can't help but think that it's had a relatively easy life.

 

 

So, and looking at desktop drives only (no servers!), who here has the most hammered drive? One that you should have swapped out an age ago, but it keeps soldiering on despite the fact that you know it may fail any time soon!

[DalekSec]

Work laptop i've had since September (8 months)

 

1284 Hours, - 54 Days

[3s-gtech]

My Crucial M4 128GB, one of the first SSDs we had here:

 

61328 hours

 

Still at 95% health.

[MatthewL]

My home PC, a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB, powered on hours 32787, 92% health. That is since December 2018, equates to been on 3.75 years, was running my PC 24 hours but not anymore.

[localzuk]

This thing is a workhorse.

 

 

Think it may be due for replacement soon. 5.2 years of being switched on.

[Norphy]

My work laptop, in the six months I've had it:

 

 

A USB-attached SSD I used for VHD storage, about five or six years old:

 

Edited May 15, 2023 by Norphy

[Dos_Box]

My work laptop, in the six months I've had it:

 

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A USB-attached SSD I used for VHD storage, about five or six years old:

 

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I wonder if it still counts the hours if it's in standby/sleep?

[ZeroHour]

Ermm..... since April '21 which not far from a full year of powered on time.

 

Edited May 15, 2023 by ZeroHour

[Dos_Box]

Compared to first gen SSD's I think we're not doing too badly. IIRC, my first SATA SSD died after about 18-24 months!

Was a shock to see it just simply fail without notice. It was a Kingston IIRC.

[3s-gtech]

I've just retired my first batch of Crucial M4s that I bought in 2012 (every PC bought since then had an SSD fitted). They were 64GB, and actually worked out okay once we got rid of Windows 7 (which was a monster space hog by the end). Failure rate of those in 11 years - 3 out of 120, and all of those were early on.