[xeno42]

I wrote a fax->email gateway in 2002 that's still in very active use.. wouldn't be that remarkable, except most of the servers are still running original equipment with original hard drives!

Anyone have servers running 24x7 with hard drives older that that?

[Wingman4l7]

I know of a case at a company which had important servers running for so long that they were very careful doing the final migration off of them, because they were certain that once they brought them down, they'd have unrecoverable disk crashes if they tried to spin them up again.

[lmm]

My home "server" still has one of its original drives from 2006 (part of a raidz2, so when it fails I'll just replace it).

[laumars]

Yup. Have a few Sun SPARC boxes from the 90s. Just one of those things, including the disk array enclosures, takes up half a rack.