I'm seeing all kind of users with harddrives with a high Load_Cycle_Count and a very low "worst" value close to the "threshold" meaning that their drives might die soon.
For example : http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3677732&postcount=19 [quote=rybu] 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 713621 I have no idea what Load_Cycle_Count is measuring. On my laptop which I bought in August it's at 713621 and going up by about 24 units every 30 seconds. I'm not hearing any clicks, and my hard drive hasn't failed. [/quote] Another example : http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/#comment-31508 [quote=Sander] I have a two-year old powerbook G4, with a Seagate Momentus 5400.2 series 100GB. They also report a minimal lifetime of 600,000 cycles (http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus5400.pdf) Mine is however already at 1,900,000! (more than three times as much), and still increasing rapidly. I use Ubuntu Gutsy at the moment. I ran the following script: while (true); do smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 >> hw.txt; sleep 60; done And the output was: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897663 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897663 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897663 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897664 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897664 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897664 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897664 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0×000f 057 057 030 Pre-fail Always - 558423241934 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897670 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897671 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897674 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0×0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1897677 So, once an error occured, and in 12 minutes it increased by 16! This does not look that good, doesn’t it? Sander [/quote] -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
