Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:14 +1030, Tim wrote:
> This is from today, which hasn't changed while I've been re-issuing
> the command over the last few minutes:
> 
> [root at suspishus ~]# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       16252 

I should mention that the laptop only gets turned on for a few hours a
day, and was bought around the 9th of this month.  That seems quite a
high count.

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(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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