SMART Load/Unload Count (Actual Number, Not Raw Value)

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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Hello everyone.

I’m looking for a SMART reporting tool that will show me the actual number of load/unload cycles for my Western Digital green and red HDDs.

Right now I’m using CrystalDiskInfo to view SMART stats, and it only shows the Raw Value for the load/unload cycle, which I don’t understand.

Can someone tell me which SMART reporting tool will translate the load/unload raw value into the actual number of load/unload cycles that the drive has performed?

Does anyone know how to interpret the raw value for the SMART load/unload cycle count?

What does a load/unload cycle Raw Value of 00000000B996 mean?

thank you

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Hello,

WD does not have an application that will report the number of load/unload cycles. Lets see what other users can recommend.

You may also take a look at this thread. Hope it helps.

http://community.wd.com/t5/Desktop-Mobile-Drives/WD30EZRX-Load-unload-very-high-bad-problem-it-seems/m-p/369511/highlight/true#M8767

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Take a look at the screenshot in the first post of the thread you linked to.

That program shows a graph that shows actual numbers of load/unload cycles for a WD drive.

What program is that?

Alternatively, is there any way to decipher the meaning of the raw data for the C1 load/unload cycle value? (What does 0000000013D2 mean?)

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The raw value is being reported in hexadecimal format. To convert the number to decimal, you could use Google’s calculator:

http://www.google.com/search?q=0xB996+in+decimal

0xB996 = 47510

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fzabkar, that was the magic answer.  Thanks for helping me out. :smiley: