You guys might find this study from google interesting: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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. >
