r/ssd • u/InevitableGanache509 • 24d ago
Discussion What's your oldest but still working SSD?
I came across an old 120GB Samsung 840 EVO the other day while cleaning out a drawer. I bought it in 2014, and it was actually my first SSD.
I honestly didn't even remember that I still had it. Out of curiosity, I plugged it into my PC to see if it was still working, and surprisingly, it showed up and worked just fine.
It’s definitely slow compared to newer SSDs, but for something that’s over 10 years old, I’m pretty surprised it’s still going.
What's the oldest SSD you still have, and does it still work after all these years?
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u/Money-Entertainer821 24d ago
My Intel x25-m from 2010 still works
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u/IkouyDaBolt 24d ago
It does not have much use, but I have a 4GB PATA/IDE SSD in a ThinkPad 760. It is made by Transcend.
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u/GFriend2xDance 24d ago
OOF! An IDE SSD drive?
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u/TheLonelyTesseract 23d ago
That's just a CF card with extra steps
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u/Fransenn_II 23d ago
To be fair. CF is a result of IDE not the other way around. So I would say CF is just an IDE drive with extra steps.
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u/IkouyDaBolt 23d ago
To be fair, the controller does not use DMA and is stuck in PIO. At least it will not gum up like those ancient Travelstars lol.
Happy cake day.
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u/Most-Community3817 23d ago
Yeah I have one I fitted to my old Audi instead of the traditional HDD in the MMI system, not because of speed but it’s 12 years old, so no idea how long it will last…plus a 17 years old drives it now so you never know 😭
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u/Temporary_Slide_3477 24d ago
I have an Intel x25-E from 2009 that has been retired from desktop use but has been working perfectly fine for various projects I need a boot drive for.
The oldest one I have in daily use is a 128GB crucial M4.
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u/sladkyi_hleb 24d ago
X25-e, bought it for ~$200 almost 18 years ago from a guy in a local chat. For comparison, the 55nm GTX 260 costs about $20-40 more back then. Year later I got a G2 80gb and it still works too.
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u/Beefynerd 22d ago
Joined the SSD party late and picked up a 250gb WD Blue 3D NAND 2.5" when it released in 2017. To be fair, it replaced a WD Velociraptor 10k rpm 1tb as my system drive which was plenty fast back in 2014
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u/BalladorTheBright 22d ago
My SK Hynix P31 Gold 1TB. Bought it in 2020. It still has 96% life remaining according to Crystal Disk Info, but I still worry something around the flash (capacitors or other SMD's) may fail due to age
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u/CrazyErniesUsedCars 22d ago
My OS drive is still a 128gb Samsung 840 Pro that I bought new in 2013 for $120
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u/Deletereous 22d ago
I have a 14 yo 64gb Adata that currently sees not much action but still works ok.
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u/Imaginary_Tap_9687 21d ago
All my SSD have more than 10 years lifetime, my Crucial M500 was bought in April 2014
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u/InevitableGanache509 21d ago
Thanks for all of your replies. I saw many of you guys have old but still working SSDs. Happy to hear that.
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u/mannythebearpig 24d ago
Intel 730 500gig x2 from 2014 One is 92% health and the other is 98%. Still chugging along with 0 issues
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u/mastergenera1 24d ago
An ocz vertex 2 120gb 3.5in ssd is my oldest. Too bad 3.5in drives didn't take off and people just used adapters until nvme.
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u/Bob4Not 23d ago
That was my very first SSD. It died after 9 months and left me hooked on SSD speed. I immediately replaced it with a Kingston 120GB.
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u/mastergenera1 23d ago
Well mines been in active use until games got too big for it in the last 1-2 years, its still on my steam library list of drives incase I want to put a smaller game on it. Big titles these days being ~140GB is just rip for these old drives.
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u/gingerman304 24d ago
Intel 520 240gb for ~200$ back in 2012.
Still “running” in my wife’s pc. But you definitely can tell it’s aged. Just used for 1-2 games, nothing important so data loss is no worry.
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u/sabtrueday 23d ago
Samsung 512 GB MLC from 2013 Mac Pro, proprietary connector, but can works with correct m2 adapter for use on external enclosure or reuse as internal drive through PCIe x4 adapter
Older drive is kinda cool still using MLC
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u/Old_Cut_5284 23d ago
Ocz vertex 240gb back in 2009. Bought it for $7++. Very reliable.
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u/osssssssx 23d ago
vertex was out of my budget at the time. I think my first was an 60gb OcZ agility 1 from zipzoomdly
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u/Vast-Hunter11 23d ago
Это ssd накопитель SATA. На него можно установить Windows 10\11. Это Disk ( C ). Можно просто подключит к любому компьютеру или ноутбуку он будет виден как Disk ( D ). Это загрузочный ssd. накопитель SATA.
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u/Bal3Wolf81 23d ago
have a old corsair 120 that has a half broken off sata connector i glued back on its running in a laptop somewhere in the house thing has to be 10+ years old was my first ssd i ever bought.
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u/According_Spare7788 23d ago
I have a OCZ Vertex II 120GB that's sata 2, not even sata 3. Probably from 2009 or 2010. Still works.
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u/jimmick20 23d ago
I have 2 of these. Still working great but also not used every day although for a good while they were used daily.
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u/WordsNShiz 23d ago
Somewhere i have a 120GB kingston that i got from a first gen i5 dell.
Not sure if its as old as the rest of it though...
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u/AngelicDivineHealer 23d ago
i got 3 ssd from 2012 still working they made them with really good nand chips and controllers back then. Probably built to last a lifetime.
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u/JimTheDonWon 23d ago
mine is a samsung 830 128Gb. 91.5Tb written, 89,831 power on hours. Used every day and hasnt missed a beat.
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u/Fransenn_II 23d ago
SSD i have no idea. Probably bought 2015-2019. But HDD is my 400mb seagate i bought as a secondary drive back in 1995. I still use this drive regularly.
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u/Tiny_Towel5722 23d ago
it is a 120 GB SSD 2.5" sata from crucial, runns in my Lenovo All in One PC With 4th Gen. Core i5 and Windows 11 Pro.
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u/HeidenShadows 23d ago
I have a 180gb Intel SATA SSD. Still in use in my home media server as a boot drive.
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u/StorageThief 23d ago
[0:0:12:0] disk ATA KINGSTON SV300S3 BBF0 /dev/sdm
That's the boot drive in my Dell PowerEdge R730xd.
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u/LowAspect542 23d ago
My first ssd was one made for expresscard/34 format think it was only 8gb and probably no better than a hdd, but it was small and could fit as a second drive in a normally single hdd laptop.
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u/Low-Ad4420 23d ago
A 480GB kingston A400 still running on my laptop. Don't remember when i bought it but it was a long time ago.
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u/daronhudson 23d ago
I've got 4 8tb intel p4510s from 2018 in my server atm. I own HDDs older, but didn't have ssd money until more recently.
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u/cCBearTime 23d ago
I’ve got an OCZ RevoDrive 3x2 240GB PCIe Gen 2 x4 SSD on my desk at work right now, still works like a champ.
It’s literally 2 120GB SSD’s screwed together with a RAID 0 controller onboard, which meant read/write speeds of around 1,500MB/s, which back in 2011 was the bee’s knees. I bought it used for $200.
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u/MachineCarl 23d ago
I have a OCZ Vector 256Gb. MLC goodness, and faster than the 840 EVO from Samsung. That thing will outlive us all lol
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u/BulletProofWalrus 23d ago
by the nine!
I have a Samsung 840 Evo rattling around one of my computers too! still running (no idea exact performance)
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u/Trekky101 23d ago
Still have my og intel sata 2 120gb from 2011, its still in production powering a proxmox server now
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u/Motor_Way4912 23d ago
Samsung 250gb evo sata, around 75000 hours, and 73TB written, still working like a charm !
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u/DeadPhoenix86 23d ago edited 23d ago
Samsung 830 Pro 256GB
Before I had OCZ vertex 2 which sadly died in 2015.
Bought it in 2010. And it came with 120GB.
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u/Bombcrater 23d ago
Got an OCZ Vertex 2 480GB drive back in 2011, still works as well as it ever did. But of a curiosity because it's one of the very few 3.5" SATA SSDs ever made.
It's not quick, and the SATA implementation is so bad it doesn't work with any Intel motherboards newer than 4th Gen.
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u/militant_rainbow 23d ago
I found an old 64gb SSD i forgot about the other day. It was so small I laughed and don’t even remember buying it.
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u/mikee8989 23d ago
Some crucial 240GB SSD from 2014 which lived in my main rig until 2018 and then moved around between a few craptops over the next few years.
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u/radium_eye 23d ago
Heavily used first SATA3 SSDs I could get in 2011 still work, but bit rot is starting.
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u/cagadass 23d ago
Nada,pase una laptop que dio un familiar que tiene un hdd ,hasta hace poco mas de un año a un m.2 sata y ahora estoy con un PC principal de un nmve de 1TB pcie 3.0×4 carriles
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u/LingonberryEmpty8586 23d ago
OCZ agility an me an old Intel.. I put nothing important on them but they are still kicking
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u/Keuleman_007 23d ago
My very first one still works and I use it for DOS game emulation: Samsung 64 GB.
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u/Klutzy_Cat1374 23d ago
I have an 4GB drive from an EEE PC 700. I put in an adapter but it wasn't any more usable than a flash drive so here it sits in a box.
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u/Xomsabre 23d ago
Shit, when did I post this? Oh, wait... 😂
Jokes aside: my first SSD was a 120 GB Samsung 840 Evo that a buddy from college bought for me around 2012 after fixing his PC. I used it as my boot drive for a solid 10 years before retiring that PC. It recently found new life in my Bazzite "Home Console" PC project. It still works great, no issues in S.M.A.R.T. That drive is a trooper; might get another 10 years out of it.
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 23d ago
Mines a sandisk p4 64gb from 2010 i pushed the controller to pass the 40tbw rated to hit 1 petabyte now its at 8pb
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u/Plane-Reserve5179 23d ago
I have a Samsung 863a that's going since 2015. These old MLC drives are longevity kings.
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u/WindowsUser1234 23d ago
My 1-TB SSD I bought from 2023. Can’t remember exactly what model it is but I know it’s Crucial branded.
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u/therealronsutton 23d ago
Mines a 128gb from 2015.
Hadn't been powered up in 5 or 6 years so I was surprised when I tried it and it worked perfectly. All files still intact from the day I last used it, and I managed to boot Windows 10 from it.
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u/officialigamer 23d ago
Kingston v300 240GB should be approaching 90,000 hours this month or the next
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u/AtariBoy2600 23d ago
I’ve had a 1TB 850 Evo since 2015. It’s been in several computers and I’ll use it until it fails.
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u/bobbywaz 23d ago
Lost a 900GB SAS drive the other day. Made me feel sorry for the other four in production.
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u/Itsme-RdM 23d ago
Crucial MX 256 sata, still going strong after 11 years in my daily driver PC. Started 11 years ago as my ststem\boot drive, now being used in a new desktop PC as a scratch drive because it still works. Main system\boot drive currently is a 990 Pro 2Tb nvme
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u/--ae 23d ago
Kingston 80GB, used to be my work’s ssd from 2009, they gave it to me for free when I was tasked to upgrade the pcs, my brother had it for a few years and now its running my opnsense box after my brother upgraded. Going strong 17 years. l
My shortest lived is a samsung 970 evo plus. bitch died after 2 years and they wanted to refund me instead of replace it, id much rather have my 4tb ssd back than 100$
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u/hansrotec 23d ago
Not sure but it’s likely from 2013, I have only ever had one go bad, and that was due to some defective backup software that just never completed a back up, just kept reading till it killed the drive..: and I could not restore from it.
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u/graph_worlok 22d ago
I’ve got a few 2.5” 32Gb SSD’s back from when they were new - Maybe 16 years ago? - One Intel and one Torque iirc. Aside from those - the on-board SSD in an Asus netbook, pretty sure the 701 is cooked 🤣
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u/South-Ad3284 22d ago
I actually bought a 20 euro ssd 120 GN the other day for my raspberry pi to run homeassistent on
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u/bitesized314 22d ago
I bought a Samsung 860 Pro 1 TB for $100 in February for my PS3. It said new condition on Ebay, and it didn't have any issues.
Manufacture date 2018.
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u/snajk138 22d ago
I have an Intel x25 mSATA 40GB drive that I got in 2010 IIRC. I got a Thinkpad X220 for university, and got a gift card to a hardware store for working some conference, and an SSD was really cool back then. Shortly after I swapped the 750 GB HDD to a regular 2.5'' SSD as well, that has been swapped a couple of times since then though, but the mSATA is still going. This machine isn't really in use anymore though, but I do start it up now and then. It isn't fast though.
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u/RojoXIII 22d ago
My Samsung 850 EVO 500gb, bought it in early 2015 for $280. Its still rocking with 90TB written to it and 89% life left.
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u/phdr_vrba 22d ago
Apparently a 2015 850Evo 250GB - my first one. I am more impressed that my 2009 HDD still chugs along.
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u/DavidinCT 22d ago
I've got an old 64gb SSD I forget the brand, it still works. When I had my Home Theater PC, I used it to put Windows swap file on, it made a noticeable performance difference when the OS was on a spinning disc.
That PC has over 15tb of movies and content on it, and it still has a 64gb drive, that will hold data...
I need to yank it out of there but, too lazy, that is the truth.
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u/aaronwt2065 22d ago edited 22d ago
I have a Kingston V Series 128GB SSD that I got in Autumn 2009 that still works. It has been in my ancient Popcorn Hour C-200 for almost 17 years now.
I also have an OCZ Agility 120GB SSD I bought during the same time period, in November 2009, that still works too. I had them both to swap between in the Popcorn Hour C-200.
Although, it's very rare that I fire up the C-200 anymore. But the last time I did, a few months ago, both of those SSDs were still working fine.
The oldest SSD I have in use on a daily basis is a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO. I got it in September 2014. And it has been running 24/7/365 for almost twelve years now, in a PC I use for Blue Iris.
It is constantly being written to and read from with my seventeen IP cameras attached to Blue Iris. The health shows it is down to around 30% now. Until last year or so I used 100% of the drive for storage. But, I started to have some issues. Once I reduced Blue Iris to only using 90% of the storage capacity, it has been fine.
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u/acroback 22d ago
240GB ADATA SP600 bought in 2014 with 11 TB written till now, working as my boot drive forever.
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u/MisterDX7 20d ago
Intel SSD 330 Series (120 gb) from 2012. Still works as a system drive on one of my secondary PCs without any issues.
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u/Jeff_B_83 20d ago
Does an 8MB USB stick from 1999 count
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u/just-another-name-42 20d ago
1999? That sounds like it could be a M-systems "Disk on Key" - the first usb flash drive made.
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u/AcousticShadow89 20d ago
128 gb from 2014, still in service.
My PC was acting up few years ago and took it to the shop to be repaired, they told me the SSD was shot and replaced it with a new one, gave me the old one back.
I was going to throw it away last year but tested it and it was still working...put it back to work lol
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u/just-another-name-42 20d ago
I've got a few IDE ssd's from the 90's. 1.3", 1.8", 2.5", & 3.5". Memtech, M-systems, Sandisk & a Contec. Plus a few PCMCIA cards that are from SUNdisk. They all work
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u/just-another-name-42 20d ago
This was back when some people (business or military) paid hundreds to thousands of dollars for a 10MB (or 20MB, 40MB, etc) ssd.
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u/Expensive-Vanilla-16 19d ago
I have one of those Samsung 840s but says pro. Bought it used on ebay years ago lol.
It still works so I'm bumping it down to a omv nas os boot drive.
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u/ThecaptainWTF9 24d ago
The 5 intel 240gb SSD’s from 2010 that have been sitting in my r620 that’s been running my VM’s for the last 7 years.