[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

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


Reply to: