Latest video on SAS SSDs made me check some of my oldest drive stats

[TheLegend_TubaGuy]

I’ve got a pretty old 6TB disk ZFS array. They still happily spin away and are serving data, every day.

Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
Page  Offset Size        Value Flags Description
0x01  =====  =               =  ===  == General Statistics (rev 2) ==
0x01  0x008  4              87  ---  Lifetime Power-On Resets
0x01  0x018  6     74249598370  ---  Logical Sectors Written
0x01  0x020  6       980340453  ---  Number of Write Commands
0x01  0x028  6    700226203723  ---  Logical Sectors Read
0x01  0x030  6      4512715353  ---  Number of Read Commands
0x03  =====  =               =  ===  == Rotating Media Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x03  0x008  4           64252  ---  Spindle Motor Power-on Hours
0x03  0x010  4           64252  ---  Head Flying Hours
0x03  0x018  4           21808  ---  Head Load Events
0x03  0x020  4               0  ---  Number of Reallocated Logical Sectors
0x03  0x028  4        10008480  ---  Read Recovery Attempts
0x03  0x030  4               0  ---  Number of Mechanical Start Failures

Over 7 years of run time. Nice…

I should buy new drives.

[Dutch_Master]

I had a RAID6 with 4x 4TB SATA drives, some had 70k+ hours on them. I’ve since replaced these with 16TB drives although currently the array is offline due to (still way too) high energy prices

[Dexter_Kane]

I have a bunch of 10 year old drives that just won’t die. I need to start replacing them with higher capacity disks but they refuse to play the game.