[ltp] T420s HD life and Load Cycle counter

[James Macpherson]

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Hi Allesandro,

I'm on a 1 month old x220.

193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   
Always       -       18256

That's with 345 power on hours.

Attached smart output for your perusal

HTH

J

On 06/27/2011 07:51 PM, Alessandro Crismani wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I just had a look at SMART results for my two months old T420s running
> the tlp daemon and I noticed that the number of Load Cycles for the HD
> has already reached 117000, with a "power on" of 887 hours.
>
> This value seems quite high for two months of usage, should I start
> worrying and taking countermeasures (namely hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda)? Can
> anybody with some insights on the issue give me a useful advice. The Web
> is so full of docs on this topic, where each one says the opposite of at
> least another one, that I can't grasp a good advice.
>
> Could also anybody having a T420s (or any new thinkpad, e.g. W520, T420)
> report his Load Cycle counter, which can be get using
>
> # smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load
>
> Cheers and thanks for any information,
> Alessandro
>
> PS, I'm enclosing the whole smartctl log, if somebody finds it helpful.


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