Re: Load_Cycle_Count: Is 600000 bad?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:13:18AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> In contrast to the doomsayers I am not convinced that this single item
> is a great predictor of hard drive failure. It is just one metric of
FWIW, mine shows:
$ smartctl -A /dev/hda|\
$ egrep 'Start_Stop_Count|Load_Cycle_Count|Power_Cycle_Count'|tr -s ' '
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 69538
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 685
225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 070 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 3812616
# smartctl -H /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 001 001 050 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 56725
222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 022 022 050 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 31454
225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 070 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 3812632
count already increased ;)
it's an
Model Number: TOSHIBA MK2017GAP
Firmware Revision: A5.04 H
on a
BIOS Information Block
Vendor ACER
Version V3.0 R01-A05-EN
Release 12/15/99
with uptimes of months (always on, till it crashes/hangs ;) ) since - hm -
2002.
HTH
--
paolo
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