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12 years and 11 months of powered-on time for this SSD... I should definitely turn it on for another month lol

10 years powered-on time for this HDD. Who says HDDs aren't reliable? ๐Ÿ˜‚

Anyone got better numbers than these?

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[โ€“] droolio@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

smartctl --scan | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -I {} sh -c 'echo -n "{}: "; smartctl -A {} | awk "/Power_On_Hours/ {printf \"%.2f years\n\", \$10/8760}"'

/dev/sda: 0.30 years #14TB WD Elements (shucked)
/dev/sdb: 2.64 years #8TB WD My Book (shucked)
/dev/sdc: 12.37 years #3TB WD Red
/dev/sdd: 2.86 years #12TB My Book (shucked)
/dev/sde: 13.47 years #3TB WD Red
/dev/sdf: 1.26 years #14TB WD Elements (shucked)
/dev/sdg: 10.55 years #5TB WD Red

Most of these drives served on Windows Server bare metal w/ StableBit DrivePool + SnapRAID before migrating to Proxmox mergerfs + SnapRAID & ZFS. My raidz1 pool has a combine total of 36+ years lol. Yes I do have backups. :)

[โ€“] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 day ago

13.47 years on spinning rust, very nice!