Hello, I have a dell xps m1530 which had a seagate 320 gb (not sure which model exactly). Anyway that disk was working fine except the last part of the disk (~20gb or so) was bad and had many bad sectors. I just stopped to use the bad part of the disk, and I had no problems for almost one year. I finally decided to get it replaced, and got a WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT2 instead. I noticed directly that the disk was much more noisy, and also made a lot of annoying click. After a few days, I check load cycle count, which is pretty huge : 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2481 I noticed this disk, or at least the pattern BEVT appear already 4 times in storage-fixup though the 4rd occurence seems to be either a bug or a typo (BEVT vs BEVE) : # Reported drive model: WDC WD1600BEVT-75ZCT0 ata model WDC WD*BEVT* # Reported drive model: WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0 ata model WDC WD*BEVT* # Reported drive model: WDC WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0 ata model WDC WD*BEVT* # Reported drive model: WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0 ata model WDC WD*BEVE* I am just wondering : does it really matter in which laptop that disk is used ? As laptop disk can be changed/replaced easily, this also sounds strange to me, but there might be a good reason I am missing :)
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