List of power on hours in my home server. 3 drives with ~10 years of power on hours. In a zfs array for temp data. WD Reds refuse to quit.

I got one HGST with now almost 11 years. And some WD Reds with 9 to 10 years. They run now in a Helios 64 which I use to store DVD and BluRay backups before they get tagged correctly and moved to my Plex storage pool.

My oldest is a Toshiba 4tb with about 60k PoH, no errors and still runs cool. The plan was to replace it with a larger disk when it died but it just refuses to.

My wd reds are doing strong also but 2 of them failed in 5y sadly non stop running

Lucky they weren’t Seagate’s. They were impacted hard by the Floods those years. That said, I used to be a WD fanboy since HD space was $1/1MB. I don’t think there’s as much difference between them anymore.

I've been carrying along these 3TB WD reds for many years now. I finally transitioned my prod dataset off of them earlier this year but wanted to see how long they'll go. 3 drives in a temp dataset (Linux isos) keep going like the Energizer bunny. Who else has some ridiculously long PoH droves still in service?

My prod data is in a raid Z2 array and has 2x off-site backups done nightly. The 3TBs are used in low risk things like temp data storage or my NVR.