I have recently bought , WD10 EARX, running on XP, ran alignment tool, everthing is fine, copy speed etc.
But i seen in HD Tune pro, Load cycle count is increasing , abnormally, Should i worry abt it… ??..
My power ON hours count is 449 hrs, means 18 load cycle in 1 hour.
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Also unsafe shout down count increased to 132, I have a UPS, bt i am not worry abt it,
SysInfo DLL Version: SysInfo v1.0 Build: 1014
Time of export: 19:11:55 08-Dec-2011
Device information:
Device ID: 1
Interface: ATA
Device Capacity: 953867 MB
Serial Number: WD-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Model Number: WDC WD10EARX-XXXXXXXX
SMART ATTRIBUTES:
ID Description Status Value Worst Threshold Raw Value TEC
1 Raw Read Error Rate OK 200 200 -51 -0 N.A.
3 Spin Up Time OK 120 112 -21- 6991 N.A.
4 Start/Stop Count OK 100 100- 0 -202 N.A.
5 Reallocated Sector Count OK 200 200 140 -0 N.A.
7 Seek Error Rate OK 200 200 0- 0 N.A.
9 Power On Time OK 100 100 0 -451 N.A.
10 Spin Retry Count OK 100 100 0- 0 N.A.
11 Calibration Retry Count OK 100 100 0 -0 N.A.
12 Power Cycle Count OK 100 100 0 -200 N.A.
192 Power off Retract Count OK 200 200 0 -133 N.A.
193 Load Cycle Count OK 198 198 0 -7948 N.A. --------Here-----
194 Temperature OK 115 101 0 -32 C -N.A.
196 Reallocation Event Count OK 200 200 0 -0 N.A.
197 Current Pending Sector Count OK 200 200 0 -0 N.A.
198 Uncorrectable Sector Count OK 200 200 0 -0 N.A.
199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count OK 200 200 0 -8 N.A. -----------no worry i had a bad cable----
200 Write Error Count OK 200 200 0 -0 N.A.