How many hours does my hard drive have on it?

[Toxic Masculinity]

Ok so I purchased a HGST (Hitatchi) Deskstar 7K4000 (2TB @7200RPM with a 64MB cache I think) for about $54 on Amazon that was refurbished with a one year warranty, pretty sure it is an Enterprise hard drive that was used in a server.

I really just purchased this hard drive for the heck of it to have extra storage but have decided I'll be using it for my Steam backups.

I wanted to see how many hours it has on it so I downloaded DiskCheckup, it says Spin Up Time is 42949672960 (Raw data).


Am I reading that wrong or does that say over 42 billion hours?

[just.kamk /idle]

Try tools like this: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Yes, there's some readout error. How many hours it ran is defined by power on hours.

[Washell]

Początkowo opublikowane przez xAlphaWizardx:

I wanted to see how many hours it has on it

It's a fun fact but,

Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated
with drive failures than previously reported.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.329.2562&rep=rep1&type=pdf

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Most 3rd party apps can tell you that kind of info for SSDs/HDDs.
- Auslogics Disk Defrag
- Piriform Defraggler
- Piriform Speccy
- HD Tune
- Crystal Disk Info

If you have your drive coming up as a alot of "unknown" then it could be due to your SATA Chipset. Such as when using some NVIDIA nForce Chipset based SATA

[Seven7]

Victoria for DOS can detect drive via new nForce - MHDD - can't

From ^^^ list only Crystal Info is a complete tool for the diagnosis under Windows, others take the information from the BIOS
Btw, if it was repaired at the factory, the information could completely rewrited ;)
and trust it is not necessary

You only check that it does not re-mapped the drive at "home serviceman"... although there are such craftsmen that can modifie factory firmware, and the translator, and services data...