[CoLoCo] Ubuntu causing problems with hard drives

[Carl J. Richell]

That's an interesting read - wonder how our hard drive failure rate may be related.

Carl

----- "Brandan E. Lloyd" <coloco-ubuntu at thelloyds.net> wrote:
> My Gazelle Value has the same problem. Load Cycle of  112,636 at 262
> days since purchase averaging out to about 430 cycles per day.
> 
> I determined the load cycle by installing smartmontools:
> 
>     sudo aptitude install smartmontools
> 
> and running:
>     sudo smartctl /dev/hda
> 
> which output some data one of the data points Load_Cycle_Count which
> contained the relevant data.
> 
> Brandan
> 
> 
> On 10/24/07, John Edwards <eric.the.grey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How can you tell, and is it possible to determine the load cycle 1.5
> months
> > after installing the drive?  My laptop was just upgraded from it's
> original
> > 40gig to a 120gig drive.  I did this for added space, and the
> ability to
> > dual-boot and has worked fairly well, but I'd had to damage that new
> drive.
> >
> > Also, beyond battery life, are there any other negatives to the
> command to
> > shut this feature off?  I rarely run on battery because mine doesn't
> give me
> > much time, although Ubuntu reports longer life than XP does.
> >
> >
> > John Edwards
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/24/07, Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > Unfortunately it's not only with the hitachi drives as indicated. 
> I
> > > have the issue with my system76 darter:
> > >
> > > My Load cycle is 332,999
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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