Hi Dougie,
Thank you for explaining it a bit more. I have read documentation from
Hitachi on the subject, but couldn't find anything useful on the Samsung
website. I've also noticed today that the count is going up just as
quickly when running on external power as it does on battery power, so
what
Hi Tom,
Samsung quote the load unload cycle threshold as 60, so in your case
with such a high number of counts I'd be inclined to apply the
workaround.
There is a correlation on some drives but it depends on the
manufacturer. Hitachi and IBM use ramp or rollers to lift the heads from
the disk
I've been looking at this bug as well and peeked at my drive stats. The
mentioned Load_Cycle_Count stands at 355,884 on my laptop after I
observed it increase by over 150 counts in just a few minutes on battery
power.
Can anyone confirm if there is a correlation between this count and the
lifespan
Hi all,
While investigating the interesting arguments concerning bug #59695, I
noted that a lot of the argument centres around the assumption that
Windows bypasses BIOS settings and configures drive access with so
called "sane" values.
Well I thought I'd check this out and although I'm still in d
