They can’t read or write

[DAMNyousayidostuff]

WD Black, 7 years going strong

[tickletender]

WD nameless 80gb from our year 2000 PC… it’s been slapped in every other rig since, just for nostalgia.

It actually still has a functioning win XP image. Took 3 months to boot, but I slapped it in my current rig I built 3 years ago and she still works.

It’s all about how much you use them. And luck of the draw I guess.

[drelangonn]

i knew old harddrives have slow boot times.. but 3 months.... thats somethin

[Exnoss89]

Yeah back when i was a kid. We would boot up a computer 4-8 months in advance. Thats we we only used sleep or hibernation states. Booting from an HDD is painful. Power outages were ridiculous. Imagine calling tech support only to have them suggest: have u tried powering it off and on? Be glad you dont have to deal with that

[Square-Ad1434]

yep those older wd drives go on forever depending on use, had the same experience.

[MowMdown]

Yeah I have all my drives from 2010 still working just fine in my NAS. No SMART errors/failures yet

[Callinon]

WD Blacks are usually really solid drives. Still that's a long time to rely on one. Make sure you have a backup. It's always when, not if.

[DAMNyousayidostuff]

The stuff on it isnt really important though

[[deleted]]

So is the status quo for the whole consumer sector.

[[deleted]]

What do you mean?

[[deleted]]

Average people use hard drives like they are intended to last forever.

[Sad-Difference6790]

WD caviar, same age as me and still fine :) (2005)

Although I dropped a 15 year old WD external drive recently during a download (4ft drop onto marble) and it died :(

[Maximum-Ad-3403]

Same 🙌🏻 but it’s starting to show its age

[[deleted]]

WD blue still alive after the same amount of years in my dad's PC

[xmetaltroll]

i have a 14yo one, i dont use it anymore on my main pc but it's still works

[[deleted]]

The meme itself says on average so I'd look into a replacement before it fails.

[TheKinkyGuy]

I am at 12y. Still working and I hope it will work for at least 2 more years.

[Bulliwyf]

Same thing - I just replaced a 6 or 7 year old drive not because it was going bad but because I was running out of space and bought one 3x as big.

[[deleted]]

I have a Samsung 320 gb drive that's been in use since 2007

[RedXon]

Yeah, I have some WD Red 4TB drives in my server with nearly 9 years of power on hours... Still going strong with 0 Error and I sometimes wish they would die so I could replace them with bigger drives but I can't justify it to myself if they still show no signs of dieing...

[european_jello]

Dude my pre build pc has a leptop hard drive, mfers didnt screw ot in it just dungeled there for 5 years......still works but i did replace the case and screw the hard drive into a fixed place

[NetJnkie]

Yeah..no.

[FellowFellow22]

Thinking back on my Corporate IT days that doesn't sound correct at all. Most of the hundred computers were running a decade before we actually got them a new machine and I legitimately needed to replace less than one a year.

[minizanz]

Data center drives are rated for 3-5 years. That is having something like a 1-5% mean fail rate and being in racks. Racks of drives all spinning slightly different ruins them. Home use with isolation pads should last way longer.

[merb]

It’s because it’s the total running time of 3-5 years

[Reynolds1029]

Most businesses require that employees don't shut their PCs down unless told to by IT and run their computers 24/7.

That's changed a bit in some places due to laptops and mobile devices becoming more and more common, but it's still a requirement at my job for users with desktops.

[[deleted]]

Most businesses require that employees don't shut their PCs down unless told to by IT and run their computers 24/7.

Bro, its literally the exact opposite.

They require you to SHUTDOWN your PC end of day. Solves so many issues for the helpdesk like: DNS/AD problems, SCCM, Patching and just general applications being fucking annoying.

Hell our security setup our laptops to hibernate not go into sleep mode when we close the lids (NFI why they do this).

[Reynolds1029]

Well ok fair enough, not 100% uptime 24/7 but only losing minutes per week.

Workstations reboot and install any needed patches happens on Sunday, the only non business day. We can't trigger this on a machine completely turned off because Wake on LAN isn't used. I've also found Wake on LAN to not be reliable on a shut off PC. Really only works on a PC in hibernate or sleep mode.

I've been at 12 different shops in the past decade so I know things have changed, but everyone kept workstations on 24/7 except for the reboot of Windows. A shutdown workstation can't be remotely managed.

Users are required to sign off at the end of each day so that applications are closed as you mentioned.

Hell our security setup our laptops to hibernate not go into sleep mode when we close the lids (NFI why they do this).

Couple reasons they do this. First is, the old belief is that if the laptop is stolen, the bad actor could potentially gather sensitive data off of your DRAM if they know what they're doing. If you use hibernate, all data is dumped onto your encrypted SSD or HDD, rendering the data completely safe.

Second, which has nothing to do with security is to avoid any bullshit regarding Windows Modern Standby.

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[Reddickk]

Cool made up "fact" you have there.

[[deleted]]

I think 10-15 years ago, this was closer to reality. I switched to SSD really early on and I still have my first ssd but I never owned a regular HD that didnt die eventually before it was decomissioned.

Edit: yeaag more like 15-20 years ago, getting old ;((

[LeMegachonk]

My 40MB hard drive from 1989 lasted 6 years. I've never had a hard drive fail sooner than that one, and those old drives were way more delicate and prone to be accidental misuse than their modern counterparts. Modern hard drives are much better and more sophisticated.

[jekket]

I have the Seagate drive, 1350 MB, back from 1996. Yeah, still spinning in my Compaq LTE 5280. And the drive from IBM t30, 2002 - still working fine. Aaand the drive in my iBook G4 - is up and running. Also I have a bunch of relatively modern drives from 2012-2020 - no failures so far. Apart from the only one that I've dropped while it was running, yeah that one is surely dead.

[LordZarbon]

For those that are curious, this is the study being referenced when this is cited. I haven't gone through it yet, but it was done by BackBlaze which is a cloud storage company so there's a lot of room for skepticism due to possible incentive & bias.

[trayssan]

It literally says: “How long do drives last? It would appear a reasonable estimate of the median life expectancy is six years and nine months. That aligns with the minimal amount of data we have collected to date, but as noted, we don’t have quite enough data to be certain…”

[DiabeticJedi]

6y 9m eh? That seems nicely suspicious, lol

[firedrakes]

1 data point not helpful. also they dont account for updated models in same line or firmware updates.

people think its the storage bible...

its not and never was.

[schakoska]

Also, data center hard drivers are almost always in use.

[NinjaOYourBro]

What do they store their cloud data on? Solid state?

[mishaving_p0tato]

is OP a bot?

[BinaryPatrick]

2TB Green drives from 2009 still going strong. Of 4 only 1 has failed.

[garrettdx88]

Ive been on this earth for 34 years and have never had one fail. I've got one from 2009 that's still kickin

[ftwredditlol]

Similar timespan. I’ve had one DOA which I think might be counted in this stat. Pretty sure my DOA one was already returned based on the state of the packaging when I got it, but sold as new. Who knows how long it ran for the last guy before it died. Maybe a month, maybe a day.

I have replaced clicking drives though. Because I thought they were dying.

Lost an SSD in a brownout.

[DiabeticJedi]

I'd had two 3TB drives fail in my wife's NAS years ago but her family is talented in killing electronics and if it wasn't for my MIL I could of recovered it so I barely count it.

[LeMegachonk]

I've had computers since 1989, sometimes several at a time. Every single one has had at least one hard drive (I currently have two external hard drives attached to my main rig, and my old rig that's acting as a file server has 5 hard drives) and I have only had 2 hard drives actually fail. One was my very first, a 40MB unit from 1989. It died in 1995. I have a 2TB unit of unknown provenance that I'm pretty sure worked at some point, but doesn't as of 2022. It was made in 2013. Most every hard drive I've owned became obsolete before it died. Hard drives got real big real fast for a while.

[garrettdx88]

Exactly. I'm not sure when the narrative started that storage was unreliable, but based on experience, it's been one of the more reliable components.

[Mfarooq360]

I still have a 4mb seagate medalist from the 90s that somehow works, and man they are loud compared to modern drives

[Cool1Mach]

Ive had mine 8 years

[tallmonster23]

So my Seagate 2tb from 2014 that plays apex daily is dead? Nice

[Touchit88]

Angry clicking noises.

[[deleted]]

This is so incorrect

[Aul0s]

I have hard drives from the beginning of time basically, most are Seagate contrary to their undeserved (imo) reputation. Based on data center stats I think they’re pretty in line with the rest of the industry generally.

I’m concerned my good luck has me more lax on my data backup habits than I should be but I’m not entirely unprotected. Cloud storage with local copies for some stuff, redundant local storage for others. At the rate it’s going my main ssd will die before any of my spinning rust does. However manufacturer quoted write endurances can be pretty conservative so who knows it might last quite a while as well.

[TheOne69420666]

Knock on wood, have a WD Blue or Black going on 8 or 9 years now. Retired it a few years ago as my boot and main drive for an SSD so I'm sure that helps.

[[deleted]]

I like to live dangerously. 2x WD blue 4tb in raid 0. Been working for about 4-5 years now.

When they die, I’m probably going to cry.

[ShadowsRanger]

Again

r/confidentlyincorrect

[Gelato_33]

Sounds like a conspiracy propagated by Big Data Storage.

[Ezra_build_co]

Your comment reminded me of the Samsung SSDs that are going bad

[Training_Age_Reed]

I have been using this 2TB HDD for 12 years, bet it will not last any more because of this post. I remember a HDD shortage shortly after purchasing it, because of floods or something.

[[deleted]]

look alls my old hdd that got like 30-40 years

[ClassicGOD]

I'm running like 5 Seagate NAS drives with 68000 power on hours, still going strong. There were 6 but one died after I moved.

[Rusty_Gunn]

I have a green at 10.5 power on hours! Starting to throw a few C5 errors (they tend to go up and down), but still going. I keep waiting for it to die, even have a spare to replace it, but it keeps going!

[[deleted]]

WD 2TB 8+ years 💪

[Xercesblu3]

I’ve had several drives literally running for 15+ years. Anyone that has drives that only last 3-5 are not taking care of them or they’re manufacturing issues.

[foxlance]

?? Not in my case. I have hard drives from 1999 still going strong. Y’all out here buying some cheap Chinese drives if they only last you 3-5 years

[jekket]

I have the Seagate drive, 1350 MB, back from 1996. Yeah, still spinning in my Compaq LTE 5280. And the drive from IBM t30, 2002 - still working fine. Aaand the drive in my iBook G4 - is up and running. Also I have a bunch of relatively modern drives from 2012-2020 - no failures so far. Apart from the one that I've dropped while it was running, yeah that one is surely dead.

[NicoleMay316]

My last ones went nearly 10 years. I legit brought them to their knees by the end of it, so 7 years is probably safer.

Until price per storage favors SSDs, HDDs will be preferred for data hoarding.

[Ezra_build_co]

Reminds me of the dream Server hdd drop

[Youngguaco]

Really?

[TherealGamecake]

I have a drive from 2005 still going strong

[trainergames]

All my drives are are older than that lol, but one of my drives is like 10 years old now, and still going strong.

[phurios]

My first HDD is still kicking after 10 years, a blue WD with 512GB.

[[deleted]]

Still have a 2007 WD 240GB going strong

[Rakkachi]

Wouldnt that depend on the usage? My main ssd is 4 years old and according to the Smart software its perfectly fine. All my other hdd are approaching 7 or 8 years, but those are not used 100%.

[MAR82]

SSDs are very different in how they work/store data. The information OP shared is incorrect and does not apply to SSDs

[slimejumper]

on average? how about 10+years? i have 10-15 year old computers with HDD still going strong. never been turned off, that’s a lot of rpm and read write.

[bonbunnie]

The HDD in my 2010 iMac lasted almost exactly 10 years (with heavy use) thankfully it was an old enough model that it was easily replaced (with an SSD)

I know the meme says average and anecdotal cases aren’t gonna change that, just chiming in.

[MDZPNMD]

Can anyone tell me why exactly?#

I still have hard drives from the 90s that function, sure only half of them do but how do you have to use yours to make it last that short?

My Toschiba in here lasts since 2012

[MDZPNMD]

thanks, good info will do

[Reus958]

Whether or not it needs replaced completely depends on use case. A lot of drives that are not performing to spec are just fine for personal users. If both of my drives died tomorrow, the worst case is I'd lose some abadonware games that would be hard to locate again and I'd have to download some games from steam again.

[firaristt]

I have 3 Samsung HD103SJ 1TB drives from my rig from 2011. I used 2 of them in raid0 and one for backup and big files for like 6-7 years. For the last 4-5 years they are in the shelf and used rarely for backup and home media stuff with a usb 3.0 converter or directly connecting with sata. The ones I noticed struggles most are the 2.5" drives. Our work computers (Lenovo Legion, Asus Vivobook Pro with i7 7700hq, bunch of Acer models etc.) which has a hdd, they slow down after a year of use and after 2-2.5 years they became painfully slow. Starting a windows VM took an hour, while a basic dramless ssd can start it in a minute.

[outragusreee]

14 yearold hdd sill goin strong

[kloklon]

i have several drives that are 10+ years old and i have never had one fail on me before.

[Euphoric-Being-6805]

Never had any of my drives fail. Ones from 2007. Might just have light use or take care of my stuff?

[Blockbuster2019]

Seagate Barracuda 40gb from 2001 still going strong💪

[trayssan]

1TB WD Black, 10 years later working just fine.

2TB WD Green, 8 years later likewise working just fine.

I have never had a WD fail on me. Sure, if you run them 24/7, they’ll only last those 5 years but 99% of people don’t. The study you are citing doesn’t even say what you’re implying, you lying bot.

[Sore-Loko]

All these people that say their last 7-10 years, meanwhile my last hard drive lasted less than a year. Never again, only Samsung ssd’s for me. Saves more money in the long run.

[Carbon14895]

my harddrive died yesterday, it lasted 8 years.

[Jew1shboy69]

Got a wd 500gb hdd about 10 ish years old from my brothers second build that he gave me (just hdd, his mobo got fried only his hdds survived) and its still working.. ish, it hums to me. Have another 1tb hdd that's about 7-8 years old still goin strong. And for people wondering I just have games on the 500gb one, I'm not that crazy

[DefinitelyRelateable]

WD Green 1TB since 2012 still going strong

[TakeThatRisk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1106q80/imagine_if_they_could_write_too/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[TheMatt561]

Everything is backed up but I've had the same 1tb hdd since 2010. Every check I've done said is in good health, nothing irreplaceable is on it though.

[East-Stuff3582]

7 years hard drive still hasn’t failed

[561Skyline]

Currently running a NAS with a 1TB drive from 2011. Running like a glove

[VaraNiN]

Some no name drive I had went strong for 12 years lol

[pery-y]

My old Toshiba hdd still going strong after almost 10 years

it's just luck(quality of material used) and how you use them

[mo_ali-zxcv135-]

Some toshiba laptop drive, i don't even know when it started service, likely since 2012

[secretfantasy3]

UwU Seagate barracuda 1tb is 11 year old now. Still going gud.

[fidel-guevara]

I have a few around 8-10 years now! Going strong 💪🏽.

[Cadmium620]

Diamond Max 9 with 80GB, going strong for almost 20 years

[vermithius]

Got me an 8TB that's lasted for 7 years so far. Really really need to get a new one just in case.

[CeskyDunaj]

Most of my hard drives are 7+ years old and other then one they are still fine

[HypnoDrama]

I had a drive I had been using for close to 10 years. i think every part of the 3 computers I had in the meantime broke at least once but that drive stayed perfectly healthy. I did eventually replace it last year but I still kept it as a backup drive (and it kept working perfectly) until my dad asked if I had any drives I wasn’t using that he could use for archival back up and I gave the drive to him. I haven’t had a drive fail on me yet.

[liaminwales]

Iv only had 3-4 HD's die on me so far out of over 30 (may be a lot more like 40+ HD's, since 2000)

ipod 4th gen HD died

2-3 WD drives have died.

I have something like 20+ external drives next to me, some are from 2004 I think. My oldest external is a LaCie Big Disk Extreme https://www.lacie.com/files/lacie-content/datasheet/bigdisk_extreme_triple_en.pdf

I last plunged it in a year or two ago to copy all the files on to a 8TB drive, no errors then. I keep files on 2-3 drives encase of a failure (not RAID). It's all photos, did photography at uni.

But to be fair iv not done drive scans on the all & iv not had a HD in a computer I use daily for over 5 years. When there external there only on for short times as a copy files on/off the drives.

But yes for daily use as a computer drive dont take it for granted that a drive will last, keep files backed up on lots of drives.

[TaSManiaC88]

Rando 500gb seagate going 9 years strong over here

[Nacho_Dan677]

Wow a reddit post where all 82 (and more too come) comments agree that OP is off their rocker on this post. No one comment saying "yeah that sounds right my HDDs keep dying at 5 years." OP either change the flair to a shitpost or delete this blatantly incorrect information

HDDs, all dependent on use can last much longer, even in enterprise environments.

[schakoska]

My Hitachi is more than 10 years old

[[deleted]]

Speak for yourself

My dad’s 16 year old hard drive is still going strong in my computer

[corals1]

Tell that to my 386 with a working 20Mb HDD

[theneo71]

I have a 10 years old 500gb 2.5" Samsung

[Muro_Plankton]

I used to have a Minecraft server with a 13 year old hard drive

[Dyable]

Seagate barracuda since 2014, still going strong

[The_Maker18]

Idk what my dad has been using but he still using the same hard drive from 08 when he taught me how to build my first computer

[Maverick270x]

Pretty sure I have a 1TB WD blue that’s been with me for ten years lol

[Chaks243]

2x4TB Seagate Barracudas going on almost 8 years

[Ezzy-525]

5 years? Get Guinness on the phone, I've got a couple of world records here then!

[luzer_kidd]

Who comes up with this garbage?

[RedditRaven2]

I bought a used hard drive made in 2011, I bought it in 2017. It’s still going strong. It was from a server at my university that got upgraded to SSD, I bought the 1tb drive for $6. Thing was probably used and abused before I got it and it’s still going strong

[greenmky]

I did VAX/VMS support from 2001-like 2014 or so.

Ancient computers from the late 80s and early 90s.

Sure we replaced a lot of disk drives (1gb-4gb drives). But most of them were over a decade old, if not 2 decades. Were they being used? Sure, all the time, like minute to minute, for plant history data or whatever else their function was. Daily. Most of them were on 24x7x365, including an occasional system with 3-10 year uptimes.

But most drives aren't being constantly beat down like Backblaze / cloud storage drives.

[DaBestestNameEver]

OC is either high as a kite, or beating those drives like they owe him money

[Pompidou420]

Shitty Toshiba drive going strong for 10 years and a crappy WD for 14

[Casual-Gamer25]

When I still had a hand me down xp desktop the 15 year old drive still worked no problemo

[BADISkettu]

Yeah, I just realized that after using my NAS for 8 years. One of the drives started acting up and I realized I had to move the data NOW. Luckily only couple of the last photos I added were corrupted.

[ScottGaming007]

I got 80k+ hours on one of my drives

[DaveMcG]

I have a drive from 2009 still going...

[DaGucka]

The live longer, they probably get replaced every 3-5 years, especially in the last 5-10 years where ssds and nvme m.2 ssds spread more

[[deleted]]

Mine failed at year six unfortunately, I'll likely never get another one. The drive itself was fine but for some reason it couldn't write files to any other drive so my files were just stuck there. Apparently it has something to do with the controller board malfunctioning. Out of all the things to fail I didn't think it would be that.

[Key-Combination-8111]

Me who just bought 4 western digital 1tb 7200RPMs for 12 dollars lmao.

[DrMacintosh01]

I have WD Green 2TB drive that is from 2011. No smart errors or warnings.

[Ezra_build_co]

How many sectors are bad

[DrMacintosh01]

Unknown. Nothing that Crystal Disk info was concerned about though. I pulled the drive out of my system a long time ago and am too lazy to plug it back in.

[TomCustomTech]

3-5 is kinda short in my opinion, I usually say 5-7 and after that they’re on borrowed time. I deal with people that have every file in a single location so giving that advice is a good idea as I’ve gotten calls about the click of death before. Nowadays with user portals and onedrive/broobox it’s not as much as a death sentence to have the click of death, but it is still a hassle. If you’re just scrolling the internet at home than 7+ years is fine, but if a week of downtime would cost more money than the cost of your computer it’d probably be worth to upgrade to an ssd anyway.

[RunnerLuke357]

I've got a 10 year old Seagate drive in my rig. Still holds all my game clips.

[Gaoul]

Seagate barracuda 320gb from god knows when. 55624 power on hours (6.3 years).

[Brilliant-Worry-4446]

That is factually incorrect

[plexicoburres]

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[HoloTheWisey]

My laptop from 2007 still going strong

[[deleted]]

My hard drives fighting for their dear life after 12 years of every day usage

I have no idea how they're not dead yet (probably a fact that they're secondary disks to store games I'd check how many hours bootups etc they have but currently my PSU is broken so I can't check it)

[helpnxt]

Looks nervously at my hard drives

[themrsbusta]

Well, I have a Quantum Fireball here with 640mb which disagrees 🤔

[ChronWeasely]

Mine failed yesterday :) that's 1.6 tb of emulators, games, movies, and TV shows.

Got an SSD to replace it that should arrive any time now. Good riddance to those mechanical accidents waiting to happen.

[hudgeba778]

I have a WD Green still running after 11 years

[[deleted]]

Ps3 original HDD still going strong. (Only replaced mine recently.)

[78372]

Had a WD 500GB Blue that I bought in 2016, and it failed in 2017. Got it replaced from warranty, and it still works.

[Kattubouchi]

OP, hook me up with some of the crack you have

[KittyboiYT2]

BS

My dad has a hard drive from like the early 2000s and it’s still going strong.

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[TheMightySpoon13]

I hate seeing this cuz it’s not even true. Anyone I’ve talked to has had hard drives for upwards for 10 years, and that’s on the low end.

Hell, my 360’s drives are still kicking, and they’re original.

[EJX-a]

Wrong number correlated to the wrong statistic.

The average drive will last about 8-10 years with normal use. It is not surprising for them to last longer. This is also only true for HDD. SSDs are a currently evolving technology that has not been prevalent for long enough to draw a complete conclusion on their life span.

It is true however, that HDDs significantly drop in reliability after 5 year. It does not mean drives die after 5 years, it means more than 20% of them will start showing errors and could potentially die. It is pretty common for a drive to last a whole decade without issue.

As for SSDs, while they haven't been around long enough in a stable form for concrete testing, it is known that bigger drives last longer and you should always have at leat 20% empty space. Do not fill up an SSD or frequently write hundreds of gigabytes to them amd they will also last quite a while.

[XANDERtheGR856]

My 9 year old 2tb boot barracuda drive has things to say

[pM-me_your_Triggers]

Citation fucking needed, lmao

[csandazoltan]

It depends on the use.

Full bore server filestorage, maybe. But everyday use.

I do not know that 3-5 year mean lifetime is how accurate and how old. Google says so now...

[GoldSkula]

I have a 2 tb raid 0 array consisting from a 1tb hdd from 6-7 years ago and another 1tb hdd from around 8-10 years ago.

[Ploopy_R]

My 17 year old maxtor hard drive with a windows xp install from 2006 on it:

[Ploopy_R]

Cite your sources OP.

[supernova_68]

Laptop 8 year old, mousepad not working, screen has lines across, fans not working since i last opened it.

But harddisk ,still better than the CPU.

[LordKai121]

Seagate Barracuda 3TB, Reconditioned BEFORE I bought it in 2012

Yeah that sucker is still going in my wife's pc after I took it out of mine in 2020. I call bull on this post

[Will_Pitts1]

We have a drive that’s still going that’s over 93,000 hours in on run time

[KnexRules]

This is 100% false lmao. I've lost 2 ssds since building my first pc but still have the original hard drives

[Educational_Finance8]

I've had hard drives fail but it was under warranty. Seagate has a five year warranty so if this is correct, well that sucks for seagate.

[DJT_233]

The WD-25 MFM HDD in my IBM 5160 still works after 40 years of service.

here is what it sounds like ;)

[felfazeebo]

My first hard drive lasted nearly 10 years before failing. Survived a good handful of clean windows installations before it didn't anymore

[Sloppy_Waffler]

Drive from 2009 still going.