On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :) > This disk died after two months usage. I don't know what I am doing wrong, or if Dell just gives my crappy disks, or if my laptop is doing crazy things with it, or ... The new one is TOSHIBA MK3263GSX , and I get crazy loading/unloading with an annoying noise, just like with the WD : 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 402 In half a day... I just noticed the Power on Hours went crazy : 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 603 I must have some magic power for destroying any hard drives that I touch :) Unless Power_On_Hours actually means Power_On_Minutes , I will monitor that field too. And I will just live with hdparm -B254 , no big deal ! cheers Xavier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
