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Anyone have a Kimsufi hard drive replaced due to old age?
jaypeesmith
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I suspect this is kind of a funny question, given that we are talking about Kimsufi but, has anyone asked for a drive to be replaced after X number of power-on hours?
I'm at a point where I have moved some things off a couple of them but, am thinking of keeping them for other purposes. One has over 27,000 hours and the other more than 38,000. I was wondering if anyone has ever asked for their Kimsufi drives to be replaced, simply due to age.
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I haven't asked, but I've been asked to do so, and will generally reject doing so if there's no actual problem with the drive. POH isn't a problem.
Yes it is.
I'd rather take old drives than new ones. They are proven after all. I've seen a HDD last 11 years. So, unless it's past 10 years mark, I wouldn't even bother even considering.
0.o
100%. Had way too many drives die in the first 1000 hours.
I heard of someone asking Kimsufi to change a ~25000 hour disk, and they finally managed to change the disk to a ~70000 hour one.
Yeah, for these SATA, I'd much, much rather have a drive with tens of thousands of hours vs a brand new one.
The SATA drives in my home system, one has 72080 hours, the other has 45332
I have two SYS server with about 30K hours, never had a problem with the drives (4x 3TB I think).
...yet
The point being that you're less likely to have issues on an HDD with 30k hours in the next .... 1000 hours... vs a drive with zero hours.
Now, I wouldn't want an SSD with a ton of hours. But it'd be much nicer to always get them with 4 digits.
I have had more problems with new drives than ones that have been running thousands of hours.
30k hours is only 1250 days - so like 3.4 years - most enterprise drives these days come with a 5 year warranty or even more in some cases - so 30k hours is nothing
/me looks at my Medion external drive bought in 2008 that still runs smoothly.
I can see my current mail filtering server:
That's more than 6 years, still waiting for reallocated sectors :-)
Will for SATA Old is Gold!!! Unless its over 10 years old... as stated by @deank
If the drive is working well dont bother changing it...