From: Leonid A B. <le...@ma...> - 2003-08-12 03:36:07
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> > > It will be interesting to see if the linear behavior (in time) of this > > > normalized Attribute continues. Please send a note in a few weeks and > > > tell us! > > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 877 > > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 10 > > > > Nothing happened at 5:44 pm. :-) > > OK! > > Strange through -- I wonder if the design life for the disk is 880 > hours. They must have had some reason to pick that decay rate for the > normalized value. This drive was working in a personal video recorder since June 2000. Could it be that, despite SMART being off for the 2.5 years before I took it out, it was counting the power-on time somewhere (or, maybe, updating coefficients of the normalization formula)? Leo |