Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?
Ingemar Nilsson
init at kth.se
Wed Oct 31 10:30:14 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:14 +1030, Tim wrote:
>> This is from today, which hasn't changed while I've been re-issuing
>> the command over the last few minutes:
>>
>> [root at suspishus ~]# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle
>> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 16252
>
> I should mention that the laptop only gets turned on for a few hours a
> day, and was bought around the 9th of this month. That seems quite a
> high count.
It certainly does. This is my count:
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always
- 68166
This is from my work laptop that was purchased in July 2005, currently
running Fedora 7.
Regards
Ingemar
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