You guys might find this study from google interesting: <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf">http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf</a> <br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Warp_7@gmx.de" target="_blank">Warp_7@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:38:34AM +0200, David Haller wrote:<br> <br> > >I bought my current internal laptop disk for Christmas 2008. It's a Samsung<br> > >HM500JI (with 500 GB). Early on I noticed that, according to smartctl, its<br> > >Load_Cycle_Count is increasing every 2 or 3 seconds. I even asked Samsung<br> > >about this, but they either couldn't give any clue or didn't want to, b/c the<br> > >Serial Number is from Turkey, so not from the European market.<br> > ><br> > >Anyhoo... I just checked the values:<br> </div>>>[…]<br> <div class="im">> >But the load cycle count is at almost 12.3 million(!). That just can't be<br> > >right. I stopped believing that number a good while ago.<br> ><br> > As I said in another mail: laptop drives are built for frequent<br> > unloading. Your number does seem a bit high though, that's about 1000<br> > load cycles per hour...<br> <br> </div>My Pa bought the same HDD model for his laptop a few months back. Last weekend<br> I visited him and loaded a diag tool on his Windows. It showed 20 or 30.000<br> cycle counts. So I guess my model just has a bad firmware or summit like that.<br> Perhaps that's why it was so cheap back then (only ~62€ for a 500 GB drive by<br> the end of 2008).<br> <br> Oh well, I'll just have to remember to do backups a bit more often.<br> <div class="im">--<br> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'<br> Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service.<br> <br> </div>A boss is a human just like everyone else, he just doesn’t know.<br> </blockquote></div><br>