Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote:
The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads
that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it
can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of HDD dying
even earlier for this problem [2]
I use:
# hdparm -B 255 /dev/hda
to get rid of the problem with an ATA disk where I do not care that much
about power consumption. I do not know what the equivalent for a SATA
disk would be, but chances are it will be easier to track it down with the
reference above.
Maciej
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My laptop harddrive is only a little over a year old and it has a cycle
count of 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 021 021 000
Old_age Always - 795931
it was going up a few counts everytime I ran the smartctl -A command. It
quit incrementing after
I did the hdparm -B 255 command.
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