I got my 360 elite in 2007 and it only failed the day Mass Effect 2 came out (Crashed during gameplay) and due to the error being an E74 error I had it fixed for free and no problems since.
So in all I have had the 1st 360 I ever owned.
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Mine died in '07. got a new one that probably wouldn't have lasted much longer, it overheated real easy, so I got the Halo 4 console. But only 1 has actually broken.