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by nickjj 28 days ago
I've been keeping my desktop machines running 24/7 for ~25 years. I only reboot when necessary.

I remember having around 280 days of uptime on Windows 7 when it went end of life. Having a UPS helps a lot to protect against short power outages or blips.

Nowadays I run Arch Linux, it's been 12 days since a reboot. Not trying to break records, I reboot to apply kernel updates when it's convenient. Since I use tmux and have terminal heavy workflows it takes 1 command and a few seconds to resurrect all of my sessions to get back to where I was at before.
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chimpanzee2 28 days ago
> 24/7 for ~25 years

r u ok?

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nickjj 28 days ago
Yes, so are the hardware components.

Current machine has been running since 2014. SMART stats on the SSD shows 100,586 powered on hours which is 4,191 days.

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chimpanzee2 27 days ago
Have you also measured TBW on your SSD?
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nickjj 27 days ago
SMART stats shows it's at 54% health remaining, all tests passed without errors.

The drive might be too old to report back TBW. It's a Crucial 256 GB SATA 3.1 SSD.

It has LBAs written which is 138292009426. The sector size is 512 bytes.

I think you can calculate TBW from that?

(138292009426 * 512) / 1000000000000 = ~70.8 TB written?

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winstonwinston 26 days ago
Yes, and I have 250GB Evo Samsung with similar stats, of same age and power on time.
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