Re: Dangerously high Load_Cycle_Count on my Thinkpad T61 Hitachi drive

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:07:08 +0300
Pertti Kosunen <pertti.kosunen@pp.nic.fi> wrote:

> On 2.6.2013 18:04, Celejar wrote:
> > 2) What should I do to attempt to preserve whatever life it has left?
> > hdparm -B 254/255? Anything else?
> 
> http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/ (For linux)

Isn't that for WD drives? Mine's a Hitachi.

> http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113 (For DOS)

And this one is only for specific WD drives.

> You could increase idle timer to slow down counter (Not sure if this 
> preserve or weaken life time).
> 
> Googling shows over 6M values, no need to worry.

Thanks.

Celejar