Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
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> Don't confuse
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> 12 Power_Cycle_Count
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> with
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> 193 Load_Cycle_Count
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Well, actually, I just discovered that my Western Digital (WD15EARS)
drive suffers from the dreaded Load_Cycle_Count syndrome
(parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years).
Color me stupid. But live and learn. I'm too embarassed to give you my
load cycle count, but if I had as many euros as I do cycles, I'd be
living in luxury down on the Côte d'Azur.
I downloaded and compiled idle3-tools-0.9.1 and disabled the idle timer.
Powered down. Powered up.
smartctl -A /dev/sda reveals that I'm not getting richer anymore.
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