Personal computing discussed
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Waco wrote:I have a Bigfoot XT that's well over 130K hours. It was on for a decade and a half or so, and it still powers up just fine. It predates SMART, though, so I have no real proof.
None of the other drives come close, but many of the drives in my NAS are far north of 40K hours (5 years or so).
If I could grab the stats I think the drives in the SGI Indigo^2 from work would win. I retired it a year ago, but it ran 24/7 from 1994 until 2016. That would be...192720 hours of power on time, give or take a few thousand. I could dig up the original purchase order if I was sufficiently motivated, but it was a monster that wouldn't stop working. It took considerable zeal to get the sysadmin to let it go for a Dell R420.
Krogoth wrote:How the hell did a Bigfoot managed not to die on you? The damn things broken down or had issues within 1-3 years of life.
Ryu Connor wrote:90,899 hours on my 4 disk raid-5 array.
Waco wrote:Krogoth wrote:How the hell did a Bigfoot managed not to die on you? The damn things broken down or had issues within 1-3 years of life.
No idea. It fired up and happily booted Windows 95 last year when we were playing around with the old hardware.
just brew it! wrote:Waco wrote:Krogoth wrote:How the hell did a Bigfoot managed not to die on you? The damn things broken down or had issues within 1-3 years of life.
No idea. It fired up and happily booted Windows 95 last year when we were playing around with the old hardware.
Low RPMs, so less mechanical wear. And they don't build 'em like they used to.
bthylafh wrote:A 320GB Seagate SATA drive that's been retired into being where Google Drive syncs to. I don't have the # of hours but it's been powered up almost constantly since ~2009.
edit: 66,579 hours.
just brew it! wrote:@The Egg - Very cool! I was thinking of doing something like that myself, but it is currently way, way down on the "todo" list!
pikaporeon wrote:bthylafh wrote:A 320GB Seagate SATA drive that's been retired into being where Google Drive syncs to. I don't have the # of hours but it's been powered up almost constantly since ~2009.
edit: 66,579 hours.
Good thing it wasn't a 16 bit integer
(i was gonna make a -65,535 joke otherwise)
Krogoth wrote:It would technically be -32,767.
meerkt wrote:Krogoth wrote:It would technically be -32,767.
-32768
Krogoth wrote:meerkt wrote:Krogoth wrote:It would technically be -32,767.
-32768
Given how integers are handled in binary. The last bit is used to determined if the value is negative or positive and how the math works out. You end-up losing a "1" hence when you notate 1111111111111111 it ends converting to -32,767 in decimal for an integer value.
just brew it! wrote:Krogoth wrote:meerkt wrote:-32768
Given how integers are handled in binary. The last bit is used to determined if the value is negative or positive and how the math works out. You end-up losing a "1" hence when you notate 1111111111111111 it ends converting to -32,767 in decimal for an integer value.
No, meerkt was right. 1111111111111111b == -32,768 in two's complement notation (which is how all modern systems represent integers)
Rand wrote:On the SSD side, a 1TB Mushkin drive is sitting at 41,427 total NAND writes.
Kougar wrote:Jeez, well that beats mine. Did you disable the sleep timer or is that mitigated in other ways for that array?
Glorious wrote:Well, as The Egg mentions, you're almost more concerned about "Power Off" hours
meerkt wrote:Hours on SSDs don't matter, methinks.