On smartctl reporting numbers in the billions: HW does not always report information the same way when queried. Some HD's are reported in a different way than expected, but that hardware which does so will also increase its Load_Cycle_Count not by one every time, but by some exponent of two (generally speaking).
That aside, hardware that doesn't fit the problematic case to which we are referring in no way invalidates that case. > Some people here draw the line at 600,000, others report > readings in the billions for their functioning hard disks. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
