So as I'm waiting on new drives to get here...
Added 2021-05-27 03:30:40 +0000 UTCSo as I'm waiting on new drives to get here for the server rebuild, I decided to look into the statistics of the drives I have now and found some interesting statistics that I thought everyone might find interesting.
The first image is a 1TB Hitachi drive I bought from a small shop during my second tour in Korea in 2009. If you calculate out the highlighted hours that it's logged, it's been running constantly for just under 11 years solid error free. This drive has been my server OS drive for most of those years. It's been in 4 countries. It's survived 8 moves. When they say they don't make things like they used to, this drive is the definition of that statement.
The second image is the main culprit for the server failure - a 2TB Western Digital Green drive. These things are apparently the bane of the Hard Drive world and from my experience with them, I believe it. It had the lowest run time of any Drive I have ever owned before failure. 3/4 of a year. During that year, it's been repeatedly slow and unresponsive and I should have removed it from the system long before now, but... Well, now it's too late and because of the workout it's given the other drives, I have to replace 2 others.
Thankfully, i'll be able to keep the 2 newer drives as spares just in case the array decides to act up again in the future. Though they both have almost 2 years of run time, their health is still perfectly fine.
SOOOO!!!! TLDR:: I have a 12 year old HDD that's still running error free after 11 of those years spinning and the drive that went FUBAR is the one with the least amount of runtime. The above images are the stats from them.
