HDD health power on count/hours [on hold]
In this question i checked my HDD health on a drive i had for roughly a year.
It has 188 power on count and 896 power on hours. Is this slow or high value for a drive that may be failing? What are your values and is the drive in perfect health?
Also is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive (or drives in general?)
NOTE: This is a external USB HDD
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In this question i checked my HDD health on a drive i had for roughly a year.
It has 188 power on count and 896 power on hours. Is this slow or high value for a drive that may be failing? What are your values and is the drive in perfect health?
Also is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive (or drives in general?)
NOTE: This is a external USB HDD
hard-drive smart
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Only 2 years, but used intensively thus 2843 count and 7073 hours, it only has a spin problem once in a long time which you won't even notice while using it, for the rest it is perfectly fine... ;-)
– Tom Wijsman
Sep 5 '10 at 23:56
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In this question i checked my HDD health on a drive i had for roughly a year.
It has 188 power on count and 896 power on hours. Is this slow or high value for a drive that may be failing? What are your values and is the drive in perfect health?
Also is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive (or drives in general?)
NOTE: This is a external USB HDD
hard-drive smart
edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17
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In this question i checked my HDD health on a drive i had for roughly a year.
It has 188 power on count and 896 power on hours. Is this slow or high value for a drive that may be failing? What are your values and is the drive in perfect health?
Also is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive (or drives in general?)
NOTE: This is a external USB HDD
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asked Jun 19 '10 at 14:39
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put on hold as primarily opinion-based by PeterH, Vinayak, Moses, LotPings, music2myear yesterday
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put on hold as primarily opinion-based by PeterH, Vinayak, Moses, LotPings, music2myear yesterday
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Only 2 years, but used intensively thus 2843 count and 7073 hours, it only has a spin problem once in a long time which you won't even notice while using it, for the rest it is perfectly fine... ;-)
– Tom Wijsman
Sep 5 '10 at 23:56
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Only 2 years, but used intensively thus 2843 count and 7073 hours, it only has a spin problem once in a long time which you won't even notice while using it, for the rest it is perfectly fine... ;-)
– Tom Wijsman
Sep 5 '10 at 23:56
Only 2 years, but used intensively thus 2843 count and 7073 hours, it only has a spin problem once in a long time which you won't even notice while using it, for the rest it is perfectly fine... ;-)
– Tom Wijsman
Sep 5 '10 at 23:56
Only 2 years, but used intensively thus 2843 count and 7073 hours, it only has a spin problem once in a long time which you won't even notice while using it, for the rest it is perfectly fine... ;-)
– Tom Wijsman
Sep 5 '10 at 23:56
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It means the drive has been powered up 188 times, and has had 896 total hours of run time accumulated. It does not indicate anything about the health of that drive.
Lifespan is too hard to predict for any drive, google has some interesting statistics for failed hard drives
http://www.myce.com/news/Hard-Disk-SMART-data-is-ineffective-at-predicting-failure-13049/
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Going by their statistics, hard drives tend to fail the most in their early stage with about 3% failing in the first three months and then at a fairly steady rate after 2 years, with 5 years being the typical end-of-life.
But this is for drives that run 24/7. So do the hmath on 2 to 5 years at 8760 hours per year.
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
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I think powering a drive on and off will wear if off much faster than just letting it spin. So just going by the rule of three will not work here.
– Baarn
Jan 22 '12 at 3:44
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Unfortunately powering on and off a drive does not wear it out faster or slower. I have one drive currently with a power on count of 2,401 and 36,615 hours that is fine and another that has a power on count of 95 and 17,442 total hours that has failed.
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
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is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive
There is a list of measured life spans for various hdd models: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART/blob/master/README.md
Check your drive model in this list. Also check it in the list of particular model samples in All_HDD.md file.
You can detect model of your drive by the smartctl tool from smartmontools package:
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | grep Model
Also you can find a list of important error types to search for in the README (Reported_Uncorrect, Total_Pending_Sectors, etc.).
Check health of your drive by the command (look at the 'SMART Attributes Data Structure' table):
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | less
answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
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It means the drive has been powered up 188 times, and has had 896 total hours of run time accumulated. It does not indicate anything about the health of that drive.
Lifespan is too hard to predict for any drive, google has some interesting statistics for failed hard drives
http://www.myce.com/news/Hard-Disk-SMART-data-is-ineffective-at-predicting-failure-13049/
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Going by their statistics, hard drives tend to fail the most in their early stage with about 3% failing in the first three months and then at a fairly steady rate after 2 years, with 5 years being the typical end-of-life.
But this is for drives that run 24/7. So do the hmath on 2 to 5 years at 8760 hours per year.
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
51k1494160
I think powering a drive on and off will wear if off much faster than just letting it spin. So just going by the rule of three will not work here.
– Baarn
Jan 22 '12 at 3:44
add a comment |
It means the drive has been powered up 188 times, and has had 896 total hours of run time accumulated. It does not indicate anything about the health of that drive.
Lifespan is too hard to predict for any drive, google has some interesting statistics for failed hard drives
http://www.myce.com/news/Hard-Disk-SMART-data-is-ineffective-at-predicting-failure-13049/
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Going by their statistics, hard drives tend to fail the most in their early stage with about 3% failing in the first three months and then at a fairly steady rate after 2 years, with 5 years being the typical end-of-life.
But this is for drives that run 24/7. So do the hmath on 2 to 5 years at 8760 hours per year.
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
51k1494160
I think powering a drive on and off will wear if off much faster than just letting it spin. So just going by the rule of three will not work here.
– Baarn
Jan 22 '12 at 3:44
add a comment |
It means the drive has been powered up 188 times, and has had 896 total hours of run time accumulated. It does not indicate anything about the health of that drive.
Lifespan is too hard to predict for any drive, google has some interesting statistics for failed hard drives
http://www.myce.com/news/Hard-Disk-SMART-data-is-ineffective-at-predicting-failure-13049/
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Going by their statistics, hard drives tend to fail the most in their early stage with about 3% failing in the first three months and then at a fairly steady rate after 2 years, with 5 years being the typical end-of-life.
But this is for drives that run 24/7. So do the hmath on 2 to 5 years at 8760 hours per year.
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
51k1494160
It means the drive has been powered up 188 times, and has had 896 total hours of run time accumulated. It does not indicate anything about the health of that drive.
Lifespan is too hard to predict for any drive, google has some interesting statistics for failed hard drives
http://www.myce.com/news/Hard-Disk-SMART-data-is-ineffective-at-predicting-failure-13049/
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Going by their statistics, hard drives tend to fail the most in their early stage with about 3% failing in the first three months and then at a fairly steady rate after 2 years, with 5 years being the typical end-of-life.
But this is for drives that run 24/7. So do the hmath on 2 to 5 years at 8760 hours per year.
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
51k1494160
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
51k1494160
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
51k1494160
answered Jun 29 '10 at 20:49
MoabMoab
51k1494160
51k1494160
I think powering a drive on and off will wear if off much faster than just letting it spin. So just going by the rule of three will not work here.
– Baarn
Jan 22 '12 at 3:44
add a comment |
I think powering a drive on and off will wear if off much faster than just letting it spin. So just going by the rule of three will not work here.
– Baarn
Jan 22 '12 at 3:44
I think powering a drive on and off will wear if off much faster than just letting it spin. So just going by the rule of three will not work here.
– Baarn
Jan 22 '12 at 3:44
I think powering a drive on and off will wear if off much faster than just letting it spin. So just going by the rule of three will not work here.
– Baarn
Jan 22 '12 at 3:44
add a comment |
Unfortunately powering on and off a drive does not wear it out faster or slower. I have one drive currently with a power on count of 2,401 and 36,615 hours that is fine and another that has a power on count of 95 and 17,442 total hours that has failed.
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
111
add a comment |
Unfortunately powering on and off a drive does not wear it out faster or slower. I have one drive currently with a power on count of 2,401 and 36,615 hours that is fine and another that has a power on count of 95 and 17,442 total hours that has failed.
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
111
add a comment |
Unfortunately powering on and off a drive does not wear it out faster or slower. I have one drive currently with a power on count of 2,401 and 36,615 hours that is fine and another that has a power on count of 95 and 17,442 total hours that has failed.
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
111
Unfortunately powering on and off a drive does not wear it out faster or slower. I have one drive currently with a power on count of 2,401 and 36,615 hours that is fine and another that has a power on count of 95 and 17,442 total hours that has failed.
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
111
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
111
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
111
answered Jun 3 '15 at 15:03
Chris HChris H
111
111
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add a comment |
is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive
There is a list of measured life spans for various hdd models: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART/blob/master/README.md
Check your drive model in this list. Also check it in the list of particular model samples in All_HDD.md file.
You can detect model of your drive by the smartctl tool from smartmontools package:
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | grep Model
Also you can find a list of important error types to search for in the README (Reported_Uncorrect, Total_Pending_Sectors, etc.).
Check health of your drive by the command (look at the 'SMART Attributes Data Structure' table):
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | less
answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
linuxbuildlinuxbuild
1765
add a comment |
is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive
There is a list of measured life spans for various hdd models: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART/blob/master/README.md
Check your drive model in this list. Also check it in the list of particular model samples in All_HDD.md file.
You can detect model of your drive by the smartctl tool from smartmontools package:
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | grep Model
Also you can find a list of important error types to search for in the README (Reported_Uncorrect, Total_Pending_Sectors, etc.).
Check health of your drive by the command (look at the 'SMART Attributes Data Structure' table):
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | less
answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
linuxbuildlinuxbuild
1765
add a comment |
is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive
There is a list of measured life spans for various hdd models: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART/blob/master/README.md
Check your drive model in this list. Also check it in the list of particular model samples in All_HDD.md file.
You can detect model of your drive by the smartctl tool from smartmontools package:
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | grep Model
Also you can find a list of important error types to search for in the README (Reported_Uncorrect, Total_Pending_Sectors, etc.).
Check health of your drive by the command (look at the 'SMART Attributes Data Structure' table):
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | less
answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
linuxbuildlinuxbuild
1765
is there a place i can find the average lifespan for my drive
There is a list of measured life spans for various hdd models: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART/blob/master/README.md
Check your drive model in this list. Also check it in the list of particular model samples in All_HDD.md file.
You can detect model of your drive by the smartctl tool from smartmontools package:
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | grep Model
Also you can find a list of important error types to search for in the README (Reported_Uncorrect, Total_Pending_Sectors, etc.).
Check health of your drive by the command (look at the 'SMART Attributes Data Structure' table):
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdX | less
answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
linuxbuildlinuxbuild
1765
answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
linuxbuildlinuxbuild
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answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
linuxbuildlinuxbuild
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answered Feb 22 '18 at 9:26
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Only 2 years, but used intensively thus 2843 count and 7073 hours, it only has a spin problem once in a long time which you won't even notice while using it, for the rest it is perfectly fine... ;-)
– Tom Wijsman
Sep 5 '10 at 23:56