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    Post your Load/Unload Cycle Count

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Victor!, Nov 13, 2008.

  1. Victor!

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    Hi All
    Can you post yours Load/Unload Cycle Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value, and count of month using your laptop

    I am using mine about 4 month and have 24000 cycle count (HDD is WDC WD2500BEVS-75UST0). And when system (Vista) in idle than value increasing every 30 sec. I think it is not very good.
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    5608 hours (nearly 8 months)
    16646 cycles
    Hard drive is a Samsung HM160HC
    Computer is an Inspiron 710m (not XPS)

    Victor! Post your hard drive model.
     
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    mmm, how could i check that??
     
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  4. Victor!

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    for example by Everest-Home-Edition
     
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    or with HD Tune on the Health tab.
     
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    What exactly makes you think Load/Unload Cycles are not good? In notebooks this technology is kind of essential:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Landing_zones_and_load.2Funload_technology

    Anyway, google gathered data from more than 100,000 hard disc drives. And they didn't find any correlation between Load/Unload Cycles and failure rates:
    http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
     
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    It's just nice to know these silly things when you know your hard drive is rated for 60,000 load/unload cycles. link T_T
     
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