On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:38:34AM +0200, David Haller wrote: > >I bought my current internal laptop disk for Christmas 2008. It's a Samsung > >HM500JI (with 500 GB). Early on I noticed that, according to smartctl, its > >Load_Cycle_Count is increasing every 2 or 3 seconds. I even asked Samsung > >about this, but they either couldn't give any clue or didn't want to, b/c the > >Serial Number is from Turkey, so not from the European market. > > > >Anyhoo... I just checked the values: >>[…] > >But the load cycle count is at almost 12.3 million(!). That just can't be > >right. I stopped believing that number a good while ago. > > As I said in another mail: laptop drives are built for frequent > unloading. Your number does seem a bit high though, that's about 1000 > load cycles per hour...
My Pa bought the same HDD model for his laptop a few months back. Last weekend I visited him and loaded a diag tool on his Windows. It showed 20 or 30.000 cycle counts. So I guess my model just has a bad firmware or summit like that. Perhaps that's why it was so cheap back then (only ~62€ for a 500 GB drive by the end of 2008). Oh well, I'll just have to remember to do backups a bit more often. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. A boss is a human just like everyone else, he just doesn’t know.
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