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On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:38:34AM +0200, David Haller wrote: |
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> >I bought my current internal laptop disk for Christmas 2008. It's a Samsung |
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> >HM500JI (with 500 GB). Early on I noticed that, according to smartctl, its |
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> >Load_Cycle_Count is increasing every 2 or 3 seconds. I even asked Samsung |
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> >about this, but they either couldn't give any clue or didn't want to, b/c the |
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> >Serial Number is from Turkey, so not from the European market. |
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> >Anyhoo... I just checked the values: |
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> >But the load cycle count is at almost 12.3 million(!). That just can't be |
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> >right. I stopped believing that number a good while ago. |
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> As I said in another mail: laptop drives are built for frequent |
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> unloading. Your number does seem a bit high though, that's about 1000 |
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> load cycles per hour... |
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My Pa bought the same HDD model for his laptop a few months back. Last weekend |
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I visited him and loaded a diag tool on his Windows. It showed 20 or 30.000 |
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cycle counts. So I guess my model just has a bad firmware or summit like that. |
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Perhaps that's why it was so cheap back then (only ~62€ for a 500 GB drive by |
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the end of 2008). |
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Oh well, I'll just have to remember to do backups a bit more often. |
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