Hey Chris, I doubt you are correct about that. These are my values:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 072 072 000 Old_age Always > - 289087 I assume VALUE is going down linearly as RAW_VALUE increases up to 1M, since 289087 / (1 - 0.72) = 1M. Normally, RAW_VALUE increases by two counts every minute. That means that at 12h usage per day, it will increase by 12*60*365*2=525600 a year, placing the drive's life span at 2 years; less, if I use it more than 12h per day. Also, I'd expect that the drive's reliability will go down quite a bit before VALUE actually reaches 0. If I run hdparm -B 254, Load_Cycle_Count increases almost not at all, so I may have some hope that my drive will survive longer -- esp. since none of the other VALUE's are as low as 72, the next lowest one being Power_On_Hours [Old_Age] with 88. So, for certain usage patterns (drive spinning continuously for long hours), the load/unload cycles do seem to be problem, at least on my laptop -- or would you disagree? (I'm using Debian by the way, but from the other reports I've seen I believe I'm having the same problem that some Ubuntu users have.) -- Lea -- 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
