Hi-- On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age > Always - 136 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age > Always - 5908 > > The disks are of exact same model and look to be same firmware. Should > I be worried that the newer disk has, in 136 hours reached a higher > Load Cycle count twice as big as on the disk thats 5253 hours old?
Yes. Drive actuators are (or used to be) typically rated for at least 50,000 load-cycle counts; at ~1000 events per day, there's about a 50% chance of such a drive dying before two years are up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Landing_zones_and_load.2Funload_technology Some models of drives intended for laptops (typically smaller 2.5" form factor w/ single platter) can tolerate many more load-cycles, and newer drives also claim to handle more. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
