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You guys might find this study from google interesting: |
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http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf |
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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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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 |
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> Samsung |
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> > >HM500JI (with 500 GB). Early on I noticed that, according to smartctl, |
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> its |
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> > >Load_Cycle_Count is increasing every 2 or 3 seconds. I even asked |
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> Samsung |
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> > >about this, but they either couldn't give any clue or didn't want to, |
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> 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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> >>[…] |
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> > >But the load cycle count is at almost 12.3 million(!). That just can't |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> that. |
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> Perhaps that's why it was so cheap back then (only ~62€ for a 500 GB drive |
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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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> -- |
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> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' |
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> Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook |
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> service. |
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> A boss is a human just like everyone else, he just doesn’t know. |
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