HDD Lasting Over 8 Years

[Joseph Foley]

Hey everyone, happy Saturday. I have a general question regarding the life of my hard drive.

I bought an Acer Aspire computer in early 2007, but the motherboard on it recently just died on its own, so I built my own PC, reusing the hard drive from that Acer Aspire computer. The hard drive is a 320GB HDD (WDC WD3200AAJS-22VWA0) hard drive.

I find it weird that it is lasting over 8 years. Is this normal for a hard drive or am I just lucky?

Thanks!

I'm really curious, because I don't know if this drive is going to last longer or if it is going to die soon.

 

[Joseph Foley]

Also, I have been using the hard drive every day ever since I got that PC in 2007, so it's kinda weird how it's lasting more than 8 years.

 

[USAFRet]

I have a couple hard drives (2GB and 6GB) from a 1998 era Dell laptop. Still working fine.
I've had other drives that died within a couple of months.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Sometimes is about luck, but it affects a lot how much writing you do on it, and usually once you've filled it up you mostly do read operations on it.

My 320GB Seagate hosts my OS since 2006 and still working with no problems at all, still I plan on replace it in the next months with an SSD just to not wake up one morning with my pc dead due to a failed HDD.

 

[Joseph Foley]

S.M.A.R.T data shows no sign of failure or damage to the drive, so should I be able to last a while still?

 

[M0j0jojo]

Hard drives are much more sturdy and reliable than Solid states. Thus SSDs will never replace HDDs

 

[USAFRet]

Hard drives are much more sturdy and reliable than Solid states. Thus SSDs will never replace HDDs

Yes they will...

 

[BigBadBeef]

My old school had an old hard drive from the late 80's, it was 8mb large and 4 people could barely carry it. Still works today.

 

[M0j0jojo]

Hard drives are much more sturdy and reliable than Solid states. Thus SSDs will never replace HDDs

Yes they will...

I very much doubt that, SSD cost too much for a bit of storage. I would take $40-50 for 1TB of Storage any day rather than spending $100 plus for 100gb of storage. Though I do like SSDs for their speed, but I just wish they would be more reliable like hard drives.

 

[USAFRet]

Hard drives are much more sturdy and reliable than Solid states. Thus SSDs will never replace HDDs

Yes they will...

I very much doubt that, SSD cost too much for a bit of storage. I would take $40-50 for 1TB of Storage any day rather than spending $100 plus for 100gb of storage. Though I do like SSDs for their speed, but I just wish they would be more reliable like hard drives.

People said the same thing punch cards vs early hard drives.

Current consumer grade SSD's are proving to be more reliable than HDD's. And the tech will only improve.
SSD GB vs price is dropping continuously.

 

[Wolfshadw]

I have a couple hard drives (2GB and 6GB) from a 1998 era Dell laptop. Still working fine.
I've had other drives that died within a couple of months.

Ditto.

-Wolf sends