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From: Andrew Hoffman <sixgod@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:44:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPBmLJaHyQO7Zy_VQF9R_uEGShmTepoag7fEcDb=oCB+WPyhHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120521210534.GA4168@eisen.lan>

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You guys might find this study from google interesting:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:

> 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.
> --
> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'
> Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook
> service.
>
> A boss is a human just like everyone else, he just doesn’t know.
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-21 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-09  8:47 [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Dale
2012-05-09  9:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09  9:52   ` Dale
2012-05-09 11:32     ` Daniel Troeder
2012-05-09 11:51       ` Dale
2012-05-10 19:39         ` David Haller
2012-05-09 21:28     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 22:24       ` Dale
2012-05-09 22:48         ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 23:49           ` Dale
2012-05-10  1:39             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10  1:52               ` Adam Carter
2012-05-10 12:53             ` Todd Goodman
2012-05-09 23:37         ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 23:58           ` Dale
2012-05-10  7:03             ` Mick
2012-05-10 11:55             ` napalm
2012-05-10 12:38               ` Dale
2012-05-10 13:27                 ` napalm
2012-05-10 21:39                   ` Dale
2012-05-10 22:53               ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-11  0:07                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-11  1:10                   ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:38   ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:13     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 11:47 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-09 12:06   ` mike
2012-05-09 13:30     ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-09 12:29   ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 16:39     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-09 17:28       ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 18:42         ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 18:53           ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 14:20       ` [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 14:50         ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10 19:57           ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 21:08         ` Stroller
2012-05-11  1:01           ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11  5:18             ` Joshua Murphy
2012-05-11 12:59               ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 17:56               ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 10:20             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-11 22:48         ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-12  1:31           ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-12 18:17         ` walt
2012-05-14  1:44           ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14  2:13             ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 15:26               ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14 15:37                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 15:52                 ` ny6p01
2012-05-26 11:18                   ` luis jure
2012-05-26 13:56                     ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 16:13                 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-05-14 17:13                   ` Dale
2012-05-14 20:54                     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-15  0:46                       ` Dale
2012-05-15 17:01                         ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-15 17:15                           ` Dale
2012-05-15 21:12                           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-18 12:29                           ` Willie WY Wong
2012-05-15 17:25                         ` john
2012-05-15 23:26                           ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-16  0:41                         ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 16:14                           ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:05                             ` Dale
2012-05-17 19:13                               ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:13                             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-17 18:58                               ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:47                             ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-17 19:14                               ` ny6p01
2012-05-17 19:25                                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-17 23:56                                   ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-17 19:29                               ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 21:10                               ` Michael Mol
2012-05-17 18:06                             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 20:13                               ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:50                                 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-05-21  3:24                                   ` Joshua Murphy
2012-07-03 11:11                                     ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [SOLVED] Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:51                                 ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:59                                 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-23  2:10                                   ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-23  6:05                                     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-19  3:18                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-19 16:59                           ` Arttu V.
2012-05-26 11:33                       ` luis jure
2012-05-14 18:25                 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-14 19:11                   ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-14 19:23                     ` Michael Mol
2012-05-15  0:03                       ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-15  0:05                         ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-15  0:16                           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 20:51                     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:01                       ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 21:24                         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:53                           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-14 23:23                             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 23:35                               ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:26                             ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:55                     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 21:56                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-09 13:15 ` [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-09 22:37   ` Dale
2012-05-10 16:20 ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:01   ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 18:13     ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:51       ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-12  9:34         ` Mick
2012-05-12  9:49           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-13  9:35           ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:24     ` David Haller
2012-05-11  1:15   ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-05-12 18:50   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-13  9:38     ` David Haller
2012-05-21 21:05       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-21 22:44         ` Andrew Hoffman [this message]
2012-05-10 19:36 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:25   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-10 20:17 ` Mark Knecht

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