[mythtv-users] 3tb drive question

[Josu Lazkano]

2013/12/31 Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:53:11 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>How could I check the number of head parks of my drive? Any tool for Linux?
>>
>>Thanks and best regards.
>
> Use smartctl.

Thanks,

I check this way:

# smartctl -A /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   199   199   051    Pre-fail
Always       -       435
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   253   163   021    Pre-fail
Always       -       1216
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       571
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   070   070   000    Old_age
Always       -       22446
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       561
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       250
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   191   191   000    Old_age
Always       -       29250
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   121   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       29
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       52
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age
Offline      -       3
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   198   000    Old_age
Offline      -       97

The "Load_Cycle_Count" is 29250, is this well?

Best regards.

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Josu Lazkano