10 Apr
2012
10 Apr
'12
2:36 a.m.
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
What does the output of this look like on your drives?
smartctl -a /dev/sdb | grep Load_Cycle_Count
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1284384
So if that's not lying (and SMART data is often false) then the drive would have spun down an average of about 30 times per hour during the life of the system.
I'm pretty sure that Load_Cycle_Count is not the platters spinning up and down, it's the heads parking away from the platters which I seem to recall someone said was to reduce drag and therefore save a few precious electrons, or maybe for some other reason. James