On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:38:34AM +0200, David Haller wrote:

> >I bought my current internal laptop disk for Christmas 2008.  It's a Samsung
> >HM500JI (with 500 GB).  Early on I noticed that, according to smartctl, its
> >Load_Cycle_Count is increasing every 2 or 3 seconds.  I even asked Samsung
> >about this, but they either couldn't give any clue or didn't want to, b/c the
> >Serial Number is from Turkey, so not from the European market.
> >
> >Anyhoo... I just checked the values:
>>[…]
> >But the load cycle count is at almost 12.3 million(!).  That just can't be
> >right.  I stopped believing that number a good while ago.
> 
> As I said in another mail: laptop drives are built for frequent
> unloading. Your number does seem a bit high though, that's about 1000
> load cycles per hour...

My Pa bought the same HDD model for his laptop a few months back. Last weekend
I visited him and loaded a diag tool on his Windows. It showed 20 or 30.000
cycle counts. So I guess my model just has a bad firmware or summit like that.
Perhaps that's why it was so cheap back then (only ~62€ for a 500 GB drive by
the end of 2008).

Oh well, I'll just have to remember to do backups a bit more often.
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