My trusty drive

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lollerskater69

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Well this old seagate drive has served me well. 40GB IDE. Model ST340810A. Long story short after some service with me, it was retired to my sister's computer as she just saves school work and some music.

Anways, when I was on vaction my dad decided to take the computer out of her room and my step brother hadn't told him that he had done something to it. To put an end to it, the drive wasn't secured and took a tumble. I'm currently trying to install windows on it, but with no success. Farewell buddy, you served me well :(

Any of you guys have some lower capacity older drives still doing duty in some rigs?
 
My family has an old Mac from 1995 with a 500MB hard drive. Last time I checked it still booted fine. I'm sure there are tons of people on this forum with even smaller disks that still spin up.
 
Im interested in how many hours you guys have on these old drives. You can check with a SMART tool such as CrystalDiskInfo or HD Tune.

Before my WHS build (about half a year ago), I had a 4GB Samsung drive operating 24/7 as a OS drive for my Windows 2000 based home server. Previous to it being installed in my home server, it was used for over 6 years in a Pentium 2 266mhz PC. I dont use it anymore because I can't find a use for it, but it still works today. Over 50,000 hours on this drive.
 
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Using it right now it's working!:)
 
I think my oldest surviving drive would be either my Maxtor or Seagate 80GB IDE drives back form 2003/2004. It seems recent but those were the drives that lasted the longest for me...
 
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I think my oldest surviving drive would be either my Maxtor or Seagate 80GB IDE drives back form 2003/2004. It seems recent but those were the drives that lasted the longest for me...
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Seagate was much better back in the day than they are now.
 
Ive got an old 6.4 gig drive I used to install XP Pro on a 250 Mhz machine just for sheets and giggles. Funny thing is, XP Pro installed, and ran, although slow, but Ubuntu wouldnt. I didnt mess with any other *nix distros although I am sure I could have gotten one to work.
 
i did have a 2tb drive that i used to use for backups that is still the cupboard i would bet that it still works if i dig it out
 
I have the 15GB IDE that came with my P3 Dell in 2000 and it still worked fine as of last November when I last tried to use it. Used it as my boot drive in the system from 2000-2004 and never had any trouble with it despite the fact it was in use nearly 24/7.

They really don't make em like they use to ;)
 
They really don't make em like they use to
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Agreed. Newer drives have a much higher failure rate. At least with the 100's of es.2 drives I've been using.
 
I might have a 1gb Quantum fireball in a parts bin somewhere... I should try and see if it still works.
 
my Celeron something or other has a 20gb something in it, that at one point was running in a dual PPro system.

it worked the last time I had that Server 2003 powered on!

and I still have a bunch of oldies in the closet. I think the smallest I have is a 10gb? but maybe it's the 20gb. Still when they were pulled, but have been collecting dust for years.
 
8 GB Fugitsu that still works, noisy as all hell though. Or maybes a a 6Gb I don't remember haha.

I noticed that a bunch of working 80GB drives I had suddenly were not working anymore after storign them for a long time. Not sure what the issue is with them. I have a couple 80GB drives, one went into my X-box :)
 
I might have a 1gb Quantum fireball in a parts bin somewhere... I should try and see if it still works.
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probably still works. I know my old 1gb conner and 640mb quantum still run.

long live quantum and conner.
 
I just upgraded my parents' Dell from a 30GB to an old 100GB I had sitting around. It's former RAID0 partner showed a single bad spot in SMART but this one still showed as being great.

Those 100GBs are a great story. Back in the day, Best Buy had a little-known plan called Defective Equipment Void of Operation with certain manufacturers. They would basically replace your item right there at the store under the manufacturer warranty. If they didn't have that item anymore, they just refunded you your purchase price.

I originally got in on a sale for a 20GB WD with a free Promise ATA/66 card (the one that could be modded to the RAID card by soldering on a resistor and flashing a new BIOS). There was some issue with the 20GB, so they were subbing in the 27.3GB. The 27.3GB died after a while, and I got my purchase price refunded via DEVO. I added in a few bucks extra and upgraded to a pair of 30GB drives to run in RAID0. Oddly enough, those too died shortly before the warranty expired, and the DEVO refund got me a pair of 100GB drives.
 
I still have and use a 5GB original iPod that I bought on launch day. I was the coolest kid in high school. ;)
 
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