So how long has your HDD been runniing?

[Gingerbread Demon]

How long has the hard disk in your computer been used?

According to the info I have from CrystalDisk Info this is my drive..

Powered on 1864 power on events
Operating Hours 6471 hours

It's gonna die one day and I am prepared..

 

[Amaris]

DRIVE 1 (Primary)
Power On Count: 1603
Operating Hours: 47,201

DRIVE 2 (Secondary)
Power On Count: 11
Operating Hours: 2,647

DRIVE 3 (Tertiary)
Power On Count: 739
Operating Hours: 10,230


My hard drives rarely die.

 

[Santaman]

Mwah, around 2 years for the drives in my main machine which isn't a lot.

My oldest harddrive is from 1982, its a 10Mb Seagate ST-412 it has had 15 years of 8-to-5 office work under its belt and it is still working fine, can't beat those old MFM drives.
Besides the 10Mb drive I have collected a whole heap of Seagate ST-225's they all work as if they're new, only one needed a low level format a while ago, it literally lost track of it tracks since stepper motor drives have no clue whatsoever about where the hell those tracks are located, 2548 steps thataway? Its caused by thermal expansion and contraction, the BIG enemy of all stepper drive, the later voice coil actuator drives all have a calibration and tracking mechanisms so the drive can always find the tracks no matter the temperature, stepper drives just step in or out the required number of times and hope for the best...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

My work computer:

Power-ons: 30 (I don't turn this thing off often)
Power-on hours: 7850 (that's 327 days--I've had this less than a year.)

My home computer numbers would be more impressive.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

My very first computer built in 1996 had a Conner 425mb drive that lasted till June 2006. It started to die mid June and clicky noises... So it had a good run.

Those old drives man that had 4 platters inside

 

[Marc]

Oldest drive is current the OS drive for my server and a 36GB WD Raptopr Disk info gives PH as 47598 and it's still running strong. Also in the server is a WD 1TB Black (30418 hours), a WD320GB (34121 hours), Seagate 500GB (12852 hours) and a 2nd (40369 hours but has a caution due to 2 sector rellocations).

My PC has a 120GB SSD that's pushing 3yrs old with 9485 hours, a 2TB WD Blue with 9495 hours, a Seagate 500GB (15839 hours) a WD 3TB external (9104 hours and that thing runs a tad hot) and 1TB external (9495 hours)

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Longest: 31795 turn on hours, 126 turn ons
Most: 16788 turn on hours, 1175 turn ons
I got them two at the same time.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Here we go, home computer stats.

Primary (OS) disk: 190 power-ons, 33828 hours (going on 4 years!)
Secondary disk (mostly games): 18 power-ons, 5449 hours (7.5 months)
Backup disk 1 (external): 82 power-ons, 48312 hours (5.5 years)
Backup disk 2 (external): 365 power-ons, 36114 hours (4 years)

I'm not sure how the external disks have been on for more hours than my internal drives. I don't use them except with this computer! Maybe they stay on when the computer is off.

 

[Amaris]

^ It's always nice to see who relies on their computer as much as I do mine.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I'm a little worried about my primary disk. Crystal Disk popped up a "caution" status because it's had some bad sectors come up. I have nothing irreplaceable on there, though. Would just be a pain to reinstall Windows and all my programs.

 

[Brolan]

Upgraded my Sony TiVo with two 80 gig WD drives back in 2002, they ran 24/7 for ten years until 2012 when I got a new TiVo. I imagine it would still boot and work if I turned it on again.