[SOLVED] Barracuda HDD with almost 27k hours use ?

[ThunderBolt019]

I have had my Barracuda HDD since i got the pc almost 6 years ago, it has been used for 27k hours. I've seen an ssd 2000mb/s for $50. Should i get a new one and replace it? What should i check to know is it compatible my motherboard? By the way, in crystaldiskinfo appears good health for my barracuda. This is the SSD I've seen for $50:
Kingston NV1 PCIe NVMe SSD

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

I would say you are due for a new drive. What motherboard do you have?

 

[SkyNetRising]

What should i check to know is it compatible my motherboard?
Kingston NV1 PCIe NVMe SSD

First you need to find model name of your motherboard. You can do that with CPU-Z (see motherboard section).
Then you find motherboard manufacturer support web page,
check specs of your motherboard and
look for M.2 slot on it, supporting NVME/PCIE drives.

 

[bniknafs9]

whatever you purchase don't purchase KingSpec , i bought one 2tb kingspec and it's defunct after about two years of work.

 

[ThunderBolt019]

I would say you are due for a new drive. What motherboard do you have?

https://imgur.com/a/DtoM1dm

According to what i've ridden it's not compatible. It doesn't have any slot like that, it has pci slot 2.0

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

No you can not use an Nvme ssd. I would not use a pci adapter either you would be running slower than your sata speeds. Your only option is to choose a sata hd or sata ssd.

 

[ThunderBolt019]

ok, then nevermind, that's my pc, as you can see everything except the ram is old. Then i guess i will keep it more time until november, where new gen gpus are launched and prices will be lower. Right now prices are affordable but high yet, 400 for 3060 yesterday i found.

 

[Wolfshadw]

27000 hours only equates to just over three years of use. I wouldn't be overly concerned about the drive health (of course, you have a back up of your data, yes?). I have an old 2GB IDE drive from the early 90's that probably still works.

-Wolf sends

 

[ThunderBolt019]

27000 hours only equates to just over three years of use. I wouldn't be overly concerned about the drive health (of course, you have a back up of your data, yes?). I have an old 2GB IDE drive from the early 90's that probably still works.

-Wolf sends

I've read that a hdd works perfectly till 20k hours, after that it starts failing somehow.

 

[DSzymborski]

I've ridden that a hdd works perfectly till 20k hours, since there it starts failing somehow.

That is not remotely accurate information; there's no such magic threshold.

There's no reason to replace a hard drive that's not having issues. What you do is keep proper backups of all your data so that when your drive eventually does die, it doesn't matter.

 

[ThunderBolt019]

No you can not use an Nvme ssd. I would not use a pci adapter either you would be running slower than your sata speeds. Your only option is to choose a sata hd or sata ssd.

I already have a 120gb sata ssd, windows installed there.

 

[USAFRet]

I've ridden that a hdd works perfectly till 20k hours, since there it starts failing somehow.

2 of the drives in my NAS:
24480, 21960

4 of the drives in the other pod attached to my NAS:
41808, 41880, 30240, 30192 hours

So all those should be dead, right?

Meanwhile, a drive I just had replaced by Toshiba....~5000 hours.
A previous drive died at about 850 hours

 

[DSzymborski]

Like USAFRet, I've had a drive die under a thousand hours. Two others under 10000 hours.

My current spinny drives across the three most used PCs - 11875, 23324, 23466, 32480, 34730, 35515, 46212, 47329, 48221, 61333.

 

[lordmogul]

You can always go for a SATA SSD. Obviously not as fast as NVMe, but still faster than a spinning drive.
Or you could keep both. Maybe the new SSD for games, recordings and other things that benefit from the speed and the old drive for less demanding data.
And about drive lifetime, don't be worried. As long as you have a backup, you won't lose anything even if it dies. At lewast for your important, irreplacable data.

27000 hours only equates to just over three years of use. (...)

That would be about 1 hr per day.
Besides that, drives indeed can hold surprisingly well. I have 2 drivers with over 50000 hrs (one of them with under 400 power ons) and one with 30000 hrs in use that all work perfectly fine, while another had issues as early as 12000 hrs in.
Even one of the infamous 3TB Seagate drives that ran without issues for over 40000 hrs.
It really comes down to the individual drives.

 

[ThunderBolt019]

You can always go for a SATA SSD. Obviously not as fast as NVMe, but still faster than a spinning drive.
Or you could keep both. Maybe the new SSD for games, recordings and other things that benefit from the speed and the old drive for less demanding data.
And about drive lifetime, don't be worried. As long as you have a backup, you won't lose anything even if it dies. At lewast for your important, irreplacable data.

I haven't done a backup, what do you recommend to use? i only have some files in a pendrive. I will save my firefox because it doesn't have cloud saving, apart of that nothing really important.

 

[USAFRet]

I haven't done a backup, what do you recommend to use? i only have some files in a pendrive. I will save my firefox because it doesn't have cloud saving, apart of that nothing really important.

'a backup' is not something you do only when worried.
It is a part of daily responsible computer use.

How much heartache would you have if you had to do a full reinstall of the OS and everything else, right now?

 

[ThunderBolt019]

'a backup' is not something you do only when worried.
It is a part of daily responsible computer use.

How much heartache would you have if you had to do a full reinstall of the OS and everything else, right now?

I already did it three months aago because i reinstalled the OS. Not much, i prefer to reinstall everything because that way you only download what you really need.

 

[USAFRet]

I already did it three months aago because i reinstalled the OS. Not much, i prefer to reinstall everything because that way you only download what you really need.

Well, if you have nothing irreplaceable, good for you.
Me, that is not the case.

 

[mdd1963]

If your H110 has no NVME M.2 slot, I'd still investigate the cost of the 2.5" SATA Crucial MX500 or Samsung 870 EVO, about $95-$100 for 1 TB model.... (even standard SATA SSDs give a very dramatic speed boost in boot speed, application launch times, shutdown speed, etc., compared to spinning drives, which rival watching paint dry by comparison...