Comment 190 for bug 59695
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| Brian Ealdwine (eode) wrote Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime | #190 |
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(Get the code!)
On smartctl reporting numbers in the billions:
HW does not always report information the same way when queried. Some
HD's are reported in a different way than expected, but that hardware
which does so will also increase its Load_Cycle_Count not by one every
time, but by some exponent of two (generally speaking).
That aside, hardware that doesn't fit the problematic case to which we
are referring in no way invalidates that case.
> Some people here draw the line at 600,000, others report
> readings in the billions for their functioning hard disks.