About a decade ago, I did some contract work for a local credit union upgrading some of their systems and one of their secondary servers had an old Maxtor drive that had over 31 years of uptime on it. It was wild because at the time, that drive had been running constantly longer than I had been alive.

I just hope you’ve got backups 🙂

Seriously though, we found an old Dell server at work that hadn’t been rebooted for years.

We knew that it was fine whilst it was running, but the stress of a reboot would finish it off with all those POST fan speed tests, RAID array tests, etc.

We took as much data off it that we thought might be relevant and rebooted it.

1 drive failed immediately. 1 fan must’ve had all the dust as that blew out a cloud during the fullspeed test.

A few days later more drives started failing and it just gradually died.

It was actually a sad day when we powered it off for the last time. 🥲

Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032 000 100 000 Old_age Always - 46892h+00m+00.000s

Power_On_Hours 0x0032 042 042 000 Old_age Always - 50812

Power_On_Hours 0x0032 044 044 000 Old_age Always - 49082

some of my higher ones… ~6 years continous