Re: Dangerously high Load_Cycle_Count on my Thinkpad T61 Hitachi drive
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013, Celejar wrote:
> Prompted by another thread on this list, I decided to check my drive's
> Load_Cycle_Count, and it seems that my drive is living on borrowed time:
>
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 031 031 000 Old_age Always - 697557
>
> Searching the web indicates that a laptop drive is rated at most for
> about 600,000 cycles, so ...
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1) Why would it be so high?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
> 2) What should I do to attempt to preserve whatever life it has left?
> hdparm -B 254/255? Anything else?
You need to issue that hdparm every time the box had any reason to change
power policy to be sure it stuck. So make sure to reissue it when waking
up, and when AC power is connected/disconnected.
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