Hitachi 7K320 hits 3000hrs of use

I purchased my three 160gb Hitachi 7K320's back on August 13th of 2008 from Zipzoomfly, for $110 a piece
As of now I have just hit 3000 hours of use on the drive in my E1505.

My other two drives are in my D900K, and have 17hrs of use on them, since August. Shows how much I use that laptop.

As an overall review, the drive has been exceptionally quiet, fast and reliable.
I have probably recommended the 7K320 500 times, and I am glad I did. The drive has been very reliable for me, and I hope it has been reliable for the people I recommended the drive to.

I only noticed one problem with this drive, which is also present on my other 7K320's, and that is the S.M.A.R.T. readings.
The values change all of the time, like every 10 minutes.
The temperature hdtune states is never the same as the S.M.A.R.T. readings. It usually always shows my disc temperatures as around 100F which it runs, but the S.M.A.R.T. usually reads 130-280
I dont really care too much because it doesnt affect performance.

When I bought the drive I did some benchmarks,
Brand new hdtune scores:



Here is the current hdtune, with 3000hrs of use, and all of my software installed:





Hopefully it has another 3000+ hours left in it.
I like to upgrade my drive at 6000hrs of use, so hopefully it lasts that long, as did my Seagate Momentus 5400.4 160gb it replaced.

K-TRON

 

How is your hm160hc doing?

 

Hmmm, if your right then I'm confused. My power on time currently reads: Power On Time - 258120, what is that in hours? If it's in minutes then I got 4,300 hours..........How come yours just says flat out hours?

 

Hmmm I think K-TRON mentioned the SMART sensor on the 7K320 is a little weird, so perhaps yours is an incorrect reading? I believe the Power-On Time is in hours.

The 7K320 is a great drive, and I wouldn't hesitate recommending it to anyone as well.

 

Well there is no way my HDD has been on for 258 THOUSAND hours.

 

I saw this and knew it was KTRON. Congrats! I am thinking of upgrading, possible the 7.2k320 is in my future

 

My Hitachi 5K160 already reached 5091 POH... I bought it in June 2008.

IIRC, Hitachi HDD have 600,000 Load/Unload Cycle Count for MTBF.
Mine, with 5091 POH, already reached 92,179 Load Cycle Count...

Btw, K-Tron, you should update your HD Tune to v3.50 for the sake of comparison with other user's HD Tune
I use v3.30 before and when I updated to v3.50, the benchmark result is slightly different. Slightly slower, but perhaps more accurate.

 

Post your HD Tune screenshot please?

 

bowlerguy, chances are your power on hours are every minute of operation, bringing your total run time to 4302 hours

Some of the older drives used to measure lifetime in minutes rather than hours. Some of the new fujitsu's, even their enterprise drives, read power on in minutes as well.

It seems like you guys are also having good drives. 4000-5000hrs is good life so far for these drives.
It would be nice if these drives lasted the 1 million hours or so they are rated for. If that happened that would be amazing

I remember someone on here had a Toshiba with like 19,000hrs on it.

K-TRON

 

There you are!

 

LOL, your SMART status really fu**ed up dude

The Ultra DMA CRC error rate, the write error rate...
I know the health status at the bottom says your HDD is ok, but don't count on it. My IBM Deskstar 75GXP, 60GXP, and Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9... all of them died without SMART warning (last SMART status is Ok).

 

Nice. I hope my 7k320-320gb's last more than 3000 hours.

 

My WD Scorpio Blue 160GB has ~2650 hours since i got it in October.
My power cycle count is more than 1300, almost double of yours.

 

I clicked Health Tab in HDTune, but nothing's in the screen. It doesn't display any data, Power on Time is N/A. How to enable this?

 

did you disable "smart" under your bios? Does your HDD support SMART monitoring?

 

The Toshiba MK2546GSX that came with my HP8510p is at 4235hrs. Thats since last August.

 

&k320 320GB HDD cost $49.99 CAD ($45 USD) from NCIX right now
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=36137&promoid=1001

Hitachi 5K500 500GB cost $85.99CAD ($80USD) from NCIX
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=37410&promoid=1001

 

I had my WD3200BEKT running for 4000 hours until 2 weeks back when i sent it in to WD for a replacement, i had som ed up values and it hanged my PC randomly as it couldn't waste the reallocated sectors to the correct place, so it went into an endless loop trying to fix itself causing the hang-up.

Oh well, 4000hours of hard usage and the performance was still as good as it was when it was new. Now i have a hitachi 5k500 the old thick one in my lappy until i recieve a replacement.

I hope the new WD3200BEKT won't give me the same problems and will continue to run for atleast 20-30'000hours, i would not be happy if it didn't wanna run for more than that. About half that time (10'000hours) of use for me is just about over a year of usage. So it would suck if it only did like 6000hours which is not even a year of usage! I don't think i have to say that the PC is running 24/7..

6000 hours is nothing imho

 

i also think 3000-6000 POH is nothing.
but with today HDD high failure rate, like Seagate current problem, reaching 3000 POH is still nice. think of it as Level 1 reliability status...

Level 10 will be 30,000 POH like we all wants

 

Is this intended for me? If so, what tests could I do in that program or another that would tell me if your in fact correct?

 

My Fujitsu shows powered on time in hours.

 

Yeah, the above post is my comment to your screenshot pic.

The story about my HDDs died without SMART warning is just a warning that SMART status sometimes didn't show that the HDD is failing. My 2 IBMs, when click of death started showing up, checking the SMART status still gave me "OK" result even on the last seconds of its life. The maxtor one, SMART status is OK, but the next time I turned on the desktop PC, the BIOS didn't detect it. So, don't count your HDD life on SMART status.

Anyway, I still assume the reading is incorrect, actually. So my suggestions are:
1. Try the newest HD Tune which is v3.50. Perhaps it's a bug on the software.
2. Try HDDlife too, just for the sake of comparison. HDDlife interpret SMART POH Count as X months Y days Z hours (HDDlife shows my 5108 POH as 7 months 2 days 20 hours).

Hope this helps

 

Ya, my HDD isn't making any noises, losing any data, not being recognized, or anything else that would signal its imminent failure. I have experienced a failure before and this HDD certainly doesn't mimic that, at least now anyway. I ran the long Windows disk check through properties and it detected no issues. Also, HDDlife reports everything as being A-OK! I have included a screenshot of the readout if you are interested in comparing.

 

if you dont mind, please upload the screenshot of HDDlife main windows (not the SMART details). i want to see the POH in month-day-hour format.

 

So, K-Tron is correct, your POH reading use minute format.

 

Ya, it's a year and 3 month old 250GB Fujitsu drive. After 4,300 hours of operation about how much more do you think I can expect given my S.M.A.R.T readings and personal experience?

 

My 80 gig hitachi has been working perfectly for the past 5 years nonstop

Will post an HDTUNE asap.

 

I honestly don't know. SMART status doesn't mean shhiit from my experience with dead HDDs.

So, as long as you didn't hear strange and unusual sound... or disappearing HDD from BIOS... or constant lockup at reading/writing big file... i think you're safe.

HDD is built to have minimum 3 years lifetime. 5 years for enterprise HDD.
Still, shhiit happens. So, avoid high-failure rate HDD (currently Seagate) and keep backing up data.

I myself have 500GB 3.5" HDD that I only turn ON to backup/retrieve data that i rarely access. other than that, it stays OFF.

 

hi all, at hdtune, i cannot view my power on hours. my hard disk is new and it is WD3200BJKT, my computer is Dell Latitude E6400. i don't think i disable anything. anyone can help? please see attachment.

 

Enable SMART in BIOS setup.
And download the newest HD Tune v3.50.