# Oldest Plot and Oldest Drive

**URL:** <https://chiaforum.com/t/oldest-plot-and-oldest-drive/739>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 12, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/oldest-plot-and-oldest-drive/739 "2025-08-12T18:05:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![AtomicInternet](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/chiaforum.com/atomicinternet/32/32_2.png) [@AtomicInternet](https://chiaforum.com/u/AtomicInternet)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/oldest-plot-and-oldest-drive/739/1 "2025-08-12T18:05:46Z")

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Thought it would be fun to see who has the oldest plot file (CNI or other) and oldest drive.

I wrote a Windows Powershell script to help, I’m sure there’s already scripts out there for other OS: [Powershell\_Scripts/Chia/FindOldestPlot at main · AtomicInternet2/Powershell\_Scripts · GitHub](https://github.com/AtomicInternet2/Powershell_Scripts/blob/main/Chia/FindOldestPlot)

**My Oldest Plot:**  
plot-k32-c05-2023-08-05-12-39-56f1746fe5f2298f55fc4818836daf49f979556367d0616021767f4a6e3f00d6.plot

**My Oldest (most power on hours) Drive:**  
ST8000DM004-2CX188 - **Power On Hours:** 31187 (3 Years, 6 Months, 21 Days, 21 Hours)

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**Author:** ![madderhat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/chiaforum.com/madderhat/32/84_2.png) [@madderhat](https://chiaforum.com/u/madderhat)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/oldest-plot-and-oldest-drive/739/2 "2025-08-13T14:03:34Z")

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Keeping it to just active farming:

Highest Powered On

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/chiaforum/original/1X/d2f6e900212fb4ce93345812e977c4738909d0b1.png)

Oldest plot

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/chiaforum/original/1X/302b3a214ac2c1ecb3eb8b61214060062e3dcfca.png)

If I started up my plotter, I have a 15 year old 2TB drive I’ve been trying to kill that has a couple of OG plots from 3 days before mainnet.

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**Author:** ![ktk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@ktk](https://chiaforum.com/u/ktk)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/oldest-plot-and-oldest-drive/739/3 "2026-04-23T20:00:01Z")

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Interesting question. I just checked, and the oldest plot I’m actively farming is from July 8, 2021. I have retired a bunch of plots on a drive that started failing, so I might have been farming as much as a week earlier.

I have had good luck with drives that I have hand-picked. When I left my previous place of employ, a pair of Linux servers that I had specified individual parts for was still running 18 1/2 years after they were built, the Hitachi Ultrastar SCSI drives not having a single failure in all that time.

I just retired the oldest drives I have at home, four 2TB Samsung Spinpoint backing my MythTV server and NAS. While my farming mostly used an assortment of USB-attached drives I had laying about, some of the plots were on the Spinpoint NAS. One of the four drives started returning read errors a few months ago, triggering their retirement. Purely coincidentally, that was just a couple of months after I put together a new NAS using 14TB Toshiba drives for capacity reasons. In any case, those Samsung Spinpoints were running 14 years 10 months when pulled from service.

On the flip side, I avoid Western Digital like the plague. Those computers I noted above, running 18 1/2 years, replaced another pair that were outfitted with WD drives. When we think of old Linux establishments that are nearly historic, we think of RedHat and Suse and Debian; but this earlier pair predates all of those! Alas, the WD drives all started failing spectacularly within weeks of each other at about the 2 year mark. I had just enough time to put together the cluster with Hitachi drives before these would no longer initialize after a power cycle. Somebody suggested to me that “Western Digital is a lot better than they used to be all those years ago, give them a try.” I did, and bought a WD portable backup drive, USB connected. This new WD drive lasted 1 hour 30 minutes before it started making “click click” noises, and never powered on again. Take this sad tale “with a grain of salt” as they say.