On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +0000, Curt wrote: >> parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years > > And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would > have been, that it's impossible, that such a drive will last for two > years. On Linux Audio Users mailing list (LAU) the drive of somebody > only last for half of a year.
idle3ctl -g gave me a value of 80, which apparently corresponds to once every 8 seconds. I bought the machine in December of 2011 (I think). Yes, I just checked the invoice, on the tenth of December 2011. root@einstein:/home/curty# smartctl -A /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 169 165 021 Pre-fail Always - 6508 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 702 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 7539 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 701 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 6 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 034 034 000 Old_age Always - 500820 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 113 104 000 Old_age Always - 37 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnl6g4a6.3u5.cu...@einstein.electron.org