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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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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