Last June I bought all new hardware for the servers, new vm server, all new storage, spent 2 weeks copying data, then a final push to jump off the old system and onto the new.

The new server is a single Dell T7810 with 2x E5-2698A CPU's, 256gb ram, 4x4tb NVME's and 3x20tb HDD's. It sucks about 250-300w, compared to the old multi node storage servers and blade servers sucking about 3500w. What a difference.

And now, after ~8 years, I'm taking it apart, and I'll be pulling the smart data on all the drives, then selling anything salvageable off to the highest bidder.

And I'll be posting some pictures here.

What looks like a combination of concrete dust, drywall dust, and cat hair has basically filled the drives.

I am really curious how close to death these drives were. The SSD's are enterprise grade, but the spinners were not.

*** DiskCheckup V3.5 Build: 1004 Report ***

SysInfo DLL Version: SysInfo v3.0 Build: 1000
Time of export: 20:39:22 16-Feb-2024

Device information:
Device ID: 3
Interface: USB
Device Capacity: 457860 MB
Serial Number: S1H3NYAD800772
Model Number: SAMSUNG MZ7WD480HAGM-000D2
Firmware Revision: DXM88D2Q
Partitions:
N/A

ATA information:

Disk geometry:
Cylinders: 58369
Tracks/Cylinder: 255
Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes/Sector: 512
Total disk sectors: 937703088
Logical sector size: 512
Physical sector size: 512
Media rotation rate: SSD
Buffer size: N/A
ECC size: N/A

Standards compliance:
ATA8-ACS Supported: Yes
ATA/ATAPI-7 Supported: Yes
ATA/ATAPI-6 Supported: Yes
ATA/ATAPI-5 Supported: Yes
ATA/ATAPI-4 Supported: Yes
SATA Compliance: Yes
SATA Gen3 Signaling Speed (6.0Gb/s) Supported: No
SATA Gen2 Signaling Speed (3.0Gb/s) supported: Yes
SATA Gen1 Signaling Speed (1.5Gb/s) supported: Yes
Transport Type: Serial
SATA 3.0 Transport Compilance: Yes
SATA 2.6 Transport Compilance: Yes
SATA 2.5 Transport Compilance: Yes
SATA II: Ext Transport Compilance: Yes
SATA 1.0a Transport Compilance: Yes
ATA8-AST Transport Compilance: Yes
World Wide ID: 5002538500079598

Feature support:
SMART supported: Yes
SMART enabled: Yes
SMART self-test supported: Yes
SMART error log supported: Yes
LBA supported: Yes
IORDY supported: Yes
CFast supported: No
DMA supported: Yes
Maximum Multiword DMA mode supported: 2
Multiword DMA selected: None
Maximum UltraDMA mode supported: 6
UltraDMA selected: 6
Maximum PIO mode supported: 4
SATA Compliance: Yes
NCQ priority information supported: No
Unload while NCQ commands are outstanding supported: No
Phy Event Counters supported: Yes
Receipt of power management requests supported: No
NCQ feature set supported: Yes
Software Settings Preservation: Supported, Enabled
In-order data delivery: Not supported
Initiating power management: Not supported
DMA Setup auto-activation: Supported, Disabled
Non-zero buffer offsets: Not supported
Trusted Computing supported: No
Host Protected Area (HPA) supported: Yes
Read look-ahead supported: Yes
Read look-ahead enabled: Yes
Write cache supported: Yes
Write cache enabled: Yes
Power management supported: Yes
Security mode supported: Yes
Security mode enabled: No
Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) supported: Yes
48bit Addressing supported: Yes
Auto Acoustic Managment (AAM) supported: No
Power-up in Standby (PUIS) supported: No
Advanced Power Management (APM) supported: No
CompactFlash Association (CFA) supported: No
General Purpose Logging (GPL) supported: Yes
Streaming supported: No
Media card pass through supported: No
Extended power conditions supported: No
Extended status reporting supported: No
Write-read-verify supported: Yes
Write-read-verify enabled: No
Free-fall control supported: No
TRIM command supported: Yes
SCT command transport supported: Yes
NV Cache enabled: No
NV Cache Power Management supported: No

All 6 of the first disks look like they're 100%.

12 of the Samsung SM843T enterprise ssd's have 100% of drive life left after 7 years
6 of the Samsungs have 97-99% drive lift left.

These drives were for VHD storage in 6 disk raid5 array's. They housed all the vm servers, game servers, sql servers, and web servers. They were running, and being accessed, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The worst drive: