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SubjectRe: Laptop's HDD
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote:
>
>
>
>>The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads
>>that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it
>>can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of HDD dying
>>even earlier for this problem [2]
>>
>>
>
> I use:
>
># hdparm -B 255 /dev/hda
>
>to get rid of the problem with an ATA disk where I do not care that much
>about power consumption. I do not know what the equivalent for a SATA
>disk would be, but chances are it will be easier to track it down with the
>reference above.
>
> Maciej
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My laptop harddrive is only a little over a year old and it has a cycle
count of 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 021 021 000
Old_age Always - 795931

it was going up a few counts everytime I ran the smartctl -A command. It
quit incrementing after
I did the hdparm -B 255 command.

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