RESEARCH 》 My Lab HDD and SSD logs for research

Working Drives:

ID	Mfd on	Purchased on	Expired on	Form factor	Type	Speed MB/s	S.M.A.R.T. Power_On_Hours	Capacity	Specs, Details	Purchased for/in	Now installed in	Model Number	Serial Number	Updated on
22	Apr-2018	03-Oct-2018		3.5"	Desktop HDD	Not Available	111	1TB	Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS - Disk7	WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0	WD-WCC6Y0EP1TN5	2019-01-06 23:32:11
19	Apr-2018	03-Oct-2018		3.5"	Desktop HDD	Not Available	133	1TB	Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS - Disk4	WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0	WD-WCC6Y2THKC9T	2019-01-06 23:32:11
21	Apr-2018	03-Oct-2018		3.5"	Desktop HDD	Not Available	135	1TB	Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS - Disk6	WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0	WD-WCC6Y0EP137L	2019-01-06 23:32:11
18	Apr-2018	03-Oct-2018		3.5"	Desktop HDD	Not Available	135	1TB	Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS - Disk3	WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0	WD-WCC6Y4VDL867	2019-01-06 23:32:11
20	Apr-2018	03-Oct-2018		3.5"	Desktop HDD	Not Available	135	1TB	Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS - Disk5	WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0	WD-WCC6Y1PJEEEK	2019-01-06 23:32:11
16	26-May-2018	26-Sep-2018		3.5"	Desktop HDD	167.12	140	1TB	Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS - Disk1	WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0	WD-WCC6Y5XAJ57U	2019-01-06 23:32:11
17	26-May-2018	26-Sep-2018		3.5"	Desktop HDD	181.22	140	1TB	Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS - Disk2	WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0	WD-WCC6Y7PP9UA3	2019-01-06 23:32:11
15	2016	3-Oct-2017		2.5"	Laptop SSD	538.64	400	128GB	Transcend 128GB	Warranty Replacement for SSD ID: 2	Dell Laptop	TS128GSSD370	D434540291	2018-10-30 22:18:38
11	1-Apr-2016	4-Aug-2016		3.5"	NAS HDD	160.41	845	4TB	Seagate 4TB NAS HDD Drive	NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS	Slot-4 NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS	ST4000VN000-1H4168	W301AZC6	2018-10-13 11:16:06
9	1-Oct-2014	11-Dec-2014		3.5"	Desktop HDD	162.72	1,155	2TB	Toshiba 2TB	NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS	Slot-3 NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS	TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 TZ5	X4BVXE5KS	2018-10-13 11:16:05
10	1-Feb-2015	8-May-2015		3.5"	Desktop HDD	182.42	1,234	3TB	Seagate 3TB Barracuda	NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS	Slot-1 NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS	ST3000DM001-1CH166	Z1F5Z7KF	2018-10-13 11:16:05
1	1-Oct-2014	8-Oct-2014		mSATA	mSATA SSD	146.70	2,434	32GB	KingFast 32GB	Celeron 1037U Mini-PC	NOT IN USE	F2M 32GB	NAG3257GG1084	2017-11-07 20:32:10
5	27-Jul-2009	18-Aug-2009	DEGRADING/ PREMATURE-FAILURE	3.5"	Desktop HDD	123.33	5,033	500GB	Seagate 500GB Barracuda 7200 RPM	Generic Desktop	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	ST3500418AS	9VM2RNTK	2019-01-06 23:32:11
8	22-Jan-2014	12-May-2014		2.5"	Laptop HDD	111.07	5,190	1TB	Toshiba 1TB	HP Envy 15-J111TX Laptop	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100	14M2S5H4S	2019-01-06 23:32:11
13	17-Feb-2017	14-Apr-2017		3.5"	Desktop HDD	150.64	5,795	3TB	Western Digital Blue 5400 RPM	Archive/snapshot off-line backup of NAS	Intel Core-i7 5820K Desktop	WDC WD30EZRZ-00Z5HB0	WD-WCC4N4HE8UKH	2019-01-23 12:31:32
3	19-Apr-2009	2009		2.5"	Laptop HDD	55.50	6,142	250GB	WD Blue 250GB Scorpio	Acer Aspire 4810T Laptop	NOT IN USE	WDC WD2500BEVT-22ZCT0	WD-WXE409JH2249	2019-01-24 08:48:00
7	16-Apr-2013	7-Dec-2013	DEGRADING/ PREMATURE-FAILURE	2.5"	Laptop HDD	113.99	10,570	1TB	Western Digital Blue Mobile	Dell 15R 5537 Laptop	TITAN-NAS FreeNAS	WDC WD10JPVX-75JC3T0	WX81EB2TH773	2019-01-06 23:32:12

Expired Drives:

ID	Mfd on	Purchased on	Expired on	Form factor	Type	Speed MB/s	S.M.A.R.T. Power_On_Hours	Capacity	Specs, Details	Purchased for/in	Last/Now installed in	Model Number	Serial Number	Updated on
12	12-Jun-2016	10-Apr-2017	10-Apr-2017	3.5"	NAS HDD	Not Available	0	4TB	Seagate 4TB NAS HDD Drive	NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS	Slot-2 NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS (factory defect and returned back to Amazon for refund)	ST4000VN000	WDH032KM	2017-10-17 21:01:23
14	18-Oct-2008	N.A	09-Jul-2018	2.5"	Laptop HDD	64.48	221	320GB	WD 320GB	Salvaged from old 2008 USB External Drive Western Digital WD My Passport Essential 320GB WD3200MEW-00	Offline NAS Archive	WDC WD3200BMVS-11F9S0	WD-WXE108T34213	2018-07-09 18:48:38
2		21-Apr-2015	13-Jun-2017	2.5"	Laptop SSD	513.35	788	128GB	Transcend 128GB	Core-i7 5820K Desktop	Core-i7 5820K Desktop - Video production (failed prematurely RMA - Got replacement SSD ID: 15)	TS128GSSD370	C07094-6745	2018-08-17 11:51:46
6	27-Dec-2009	12-Dec-2010	12-Apr-2015	3.5"	Desktop HDD	Not Available	1,463	1TB	Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB	Shark PC build	Offline Archive	WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1	WD-WCAV56336889	2017-10-17 20:08:03
4	18-Mar-2009		27-Mar-2017	2.5"	Laptop HDD	69.00	13,763	320GB	Seagate 320GB Momentus 5400.6	Ext USB enclosure	Dell Laptop	ST9320325AS	5VE1CJAF	2017-10-29 10:41:15

Total S.M.A.R.T. Power_On_Hours:

Working Drives	Expired Drives	Combined
17 Drives (39,727 Hrs, Avg: 2,337 Hrs)	5 Drives (16,235 Hrs, Avg: 3,247 Hrs)	22 Drives (55,962 Hrs, Avg: 2,544 Hrs)

Here is a complete log of my hard-disk drives (HDD) and SSD drives which I maintain in Google drive. These I use for my home (or my family generic use) as well for my development and test devices as well a part of my home lab. I maintain a detailed log this way to monitor the failure rate of these storage devices. Since it is not just hard-disks which fail unexpectedly even SSDs are prone to fail. And in the case of mSATA and M.2 SSD drives since the board is exposed, it may fail sometimes due to mishandling (such as static) or due to any liquid spills. There are cases SSD may fail due to over-heating too due to various heat generating components at its vicinity.

The other reason I main this log is to also monitor the technological advancements in the storage technology. Its not about when Seagate or Western Digital (WD) or Samsung released their latest high-capacity harddrives or SSDs. Its all about when these new latest drives will become eventually affordable and get commonly used and as well to monitor when the older drive technologies (or capacities) will get obsolete. For example a 1TB 3.5'' internal desktop harddisk is obsolete. Where as one can still find 1TB internal 2.5'' laptop harddrive. But on the other hand a 1TB SSD drive is still quite expensive and the SSD market is not that mature yet to completely replace HDD.

As you can see, I maintain details of the drives which are still in use and are in working condition and the drives which are expired (or in other words failed). But it is important to make a note that the duration between the manufacture date (and purchase date) and expired date has nothing to do much in terms of accessing the drive's reliability. For example my WD Green 1TB WD10EARS 3.5'' drive I rarely used and it failed quite prematurely. It started producing weird disk-errors and S.M.A.R.T. errors and eventually failed to respond completely. I barely used this drive. Later I discovered this drive is quite prone to error and many users as well Backblaze already reported about it.

My first hard-disk I bought is a Seagate 10GB drive when I am studying at college. Ever since I got many hard-drives and these are missing in this log. I just got an idea to main this log quite recently and I started preparing this complete Google drive sheet and populated all my existing hard-drives and SSDs which I have it at my home (and my home lab).

In case if you are interested getting S.M.A.R.T. attributes of your HDD and or SSD drive, here is my video log of the same. You can capture these attributes both via Linux Disks GUI tool as well smartctl command line tool as discussed below:

And in case if you are having issues or some inconsistency (such as file corruption, excess read leatency, etc) you can monitor and detect a failing HDD or SSD in Linux as discussed in my video log below:

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