From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SWZrD-0007ms-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 21:09:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AA0DE0D77; Mon, 21 May 2012 21:08:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3DF2E0D65 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 21:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 May 2012 21:05:35 -0000 Received: from wl-l3-55.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO localhost) [141.24.17.55] by mail.gmx.net (mp033) with SMTP; 21 May 2012 23:05:35 +0200 X-Authenticated: #4040096 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18DKzdoygcDo1idMhk7cvZ/BzpR674VEfbtfQBz2X YzkhDPkEzRHQUT Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:05:34 +0200 From: Frank Steinmetzger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Message-ID: <20120521210534.GA4168@eisen.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <20120512185035.GA4716@eisen.fritz.box> <20120513093834.GB24679@grusum.endjinn.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120513093834.GB24679@grusum.endjinn.de> User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r1) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 34d1785a-073a-451b-b3cc-e39b3ad59667 X-Archives-Hash: 4c98a781f131140dfa169323155922e8 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Sam= sung > >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 Samsu= ng > >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: >>[=E2=80=A6] > >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. >=20 > 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 week= end 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 th= at. Perhaps that's why it was so cheap back then (only ~62=E2=82=AC for a 500 G= B drive by the end of 2008). Oh well, I'll just have to remember to do backups a bit more often. --=20 Gru=C3=9F | Greetings | Qapla' Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook servi= ce. A boss is a human just like everyone else, he just doesn=E2=80=99t know. --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+6rh0ACgkQGafpl66MV0wj5QCePCt+5oXOeoayKttHIRFJb8mf yWsAn3BqhsBqr7bfa5oHLNn++x3lBb8y =1bAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--