Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +0000, Curt wrote:
>> parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years
>
> And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would
> have been, that it's impossible, that such a drive will last for two
> years. On Linux Audio Users mailing list (LAU) the drive of somebody
> only last for half of a year.

idle3ctl -g

gave me a value of 80, which apparently corresponds to once every 8
seconds.

I bought the machine in December of 2011 (I think).  Yes, I just checked
the invoice, on the tenth of December 2011.

root@einstein:/home/curty# smartctl -A /dev/sda
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   169   165   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       6508
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       702
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   090   090   000    Old_age   Always       -       7539
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       701
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       6
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   034   034   000    Old_age   Always       -       500820
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   113   104   000    Old_age   Always       -       37
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0