On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:04:21 -0700, Brendan Perrine wrote: >I have a computer that I have only had for a little more than 2 years >that already has more than 10,000 powered on hours on two disks >granted these are newer than pata disks
As already pointed out, HDDs suffer from spinning down and up, not that much from usage. Those two SATA drives are from a home computer that relatively often is turned off and on, IOW it's not up for several hundred days, sometimes the HDDs spin down and up several times a day. There's not really a difference to IDE drives. [root@moonstudio weremouse]# smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Hours 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 41986 [root@moonstudio weremouse]# smartctl -a /dev/sdb|grep Hours 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 33917 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 33917 [root@moonstudio weremouse]# uptime|cut -d, -f1 00:50:53 up 8 days -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
