Re: Used HDs

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost (Todd Gruhn) writes:

>WOW! 15+ years?

  9   1    0     no  online  positive    Power-on hours count        108926
  5 200  140     yes online  positive    Reallocated sector count    0

That's >12 years.

Part of the equation is that it's running almost continously at a rather
constant temperature.

  4 100    0     no  online  positive    Start/stop count            224
193 200    0     no  online  positive    Load cycle count            86
194 107    0     no  online  positive    Temperature                 40


Numbers like "lifetime" are only statistics. You cannot predict how
long a specific drive lasts, only what lifetime you may expect
for a large set of drives.

It's mirror disk from the RAID started to fail after 4 years, the
replacement now runs for >7 years.