So the information provided by SMART is not reliable as we've seen some
abnormal values. How can we be certain that this drives failures are
because of high "Load Cycles" values?
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For users of Windows you can use the "Power Booster" utility from Hitachi's
site. With this you can disable power s
I'm using Windows and like to add few things (using a Hitachi
Travelstar):
1) Many persons say they have X "Load Cycles" in Y "Years". I don't
think that this means much unless you use it 24/7. You should say how
many "Load Cycles" in how many "Hours". Using smartmontools is easy.
Mine is: "Load
