Hi, i quoted smartctl: > > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - > > 18 > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - > > 19 > > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - > > 18 > > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - > > 19 > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - > > 19
Reco wrote: > The most interesting part of that output is here. > Once per hour on average drive performs head parking, The power cycles were intentional. The machine was rebooted several times yesterday for various reasons. (I wonder why yours reports 57 with Power_Cycle_Count but only 35 with Power-Off_Retract_Count.) > which cannot explain what you're seeing. Yeah. We'd need something that happened at least during the last 12 hours of operation at least 900 times per hour. I still did not find my loudspeakers to listen to the wikipedia audio file whether it indeed plays a sedately periodic and somewhat thud-like sound. Have a nice day :) Thomas