Well, technically the hard drive. This is what the thread is about.

As some of you know, virtually all hard drives manufactured since around 1996 support S.M.A.R.T, which stands for "Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology". It is like an odometer on a vehicle, just mode advanced.

Two of the many things that S.M.A.R.T keeps track of is how many times the hard drive has been cycled, and how many hours it has been on, since birth.

There are many utilities available for retrieving S.M.A.R.T data, but here is one only 44kB in size and requiring no installation. Just run "DiskCheckup.exe".

Homepage: www.passmark.com (screenshot attached)
Direct download: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/cgi-bin/mclick.cgi?44

So let's make a small knowledge base, with general satisfaction comments, based on what hard drives you own/owned. I'll start with 5 drives, in chronological order that were in my desktop computer:

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Model : IBM-DTTA-371440
Capacity : 13.5GB
Start/Stop Count 2281
Power-On Time Count 19193 (800 days)
Power Cycle Count 1319
Comments: IBM Desktar, noisy bearings.
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Model : ST320011A
Capacity : 19.0GB
Power-On Time Count 17298 (721 days)
Power Cycle Count 1108
Comments: Seagate Barracuda IV, perfect.
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Model : ST330011A
Capacity : 28.5GB
Power-On Time Count 11199 (467 days)
Power Cycle Count 910
Comments: Seagate Barracuda IV, perfect.
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Model : WDC WD400EB-11CPF0
Capacity : 37.3GB
Start/Stop Count 323
Power-On Time Count 4584 (191 days)
Power Cycle Count 214
Commens: Western Digital Caviar, VERY noisy bearings.
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Model : Maxtor 6Y060P0
Serial Number : Y2MW2LME
Capacity : 57.3GB
Start/Stop Count 113
Power-On Time Count 29565 (1231 days)
Power Cycle Count 127
Comments: Perfect. Still in use.

 

Seagate Baracuda 80 GB 7200 RPM:

 

Model Number: Maxtor 92049U3
9 Power On Time 1647303
C Power Cycle Count 1037



Model Number: Maxtor 5T030H3
9 Power On Time 28359
C Power Cycle Count 570



Model Number: Maxtor 4W100H6
9 Power On Time 9458
C Power Cycle Count 424

 

9 Power On Time 36432
C Power Cycle Count 132

 

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Model: IBM-DTLA-307045
Capacity: 40.0GB
Power On Time: 10727 (447 days)
Power Cycle Count: 2067
Temperature: 32 C
Comments: IBM Deskstar; very good
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Model Number: WDC WD1600JB-53EVA0
Capacity: 160.0GB
Power On Time: 4753 (198 days)
Power Cycle Count: 705
Temperature: 29 C
Comments: Western Digital; excellent
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Model Number: WDC WD800JB-00ETA0
Capacity: 80.0 GB
Power On Time: 728 (30 days)
Power Cycle Count: 498
Temperature: 27 C

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Model Number: ST340014A
Capacity: 40.0 GB
Power On Time: 84 (3.5 days)
Power Cycle Count: 189
Temperature: 30 C

 

Dell Notebook
Power on time 1000 hours

 

Maxtor hard drive in a dell dimension 8250.


Drive 0 SMART enabled



IDE REGISTERS:

Features: 0x0 Sector Count: 0x1 Sector Number: 0x1

Cylinder Low: 0x0 Cylinder High: 0x0 Drive Head: 0xA0

Command: 0xEC



DRIVE INFORMATION:

Serial Number: D27MWDGE
FirmWare Rev: DAK019K0
Model Number: Maxtor 4D040H2
Cylinders: 16383
Heads: 16
Sectors per track: 63
Cur Cyls: 16383
Cur Heads: 16
Cur Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes per track: NA
Bytes per sector: NA
Gen Config: 64
Buffer Type: 3
Buffer Size: 4096
Vendor Unique: 0 0 0
More Vendor Unique: 0x8010

ECC Size: 57 Double Word IO: 0 Capabilities: 12032

PIO Timing: 512 DMA Timing: 0 BS: 7

Current Sector Capacity: 16514064 Total Addressable Sectors: 80043264

Mult. Sector Stuff: 272 Single Word DMA: 0 Multi Word DMA: 7



SMART ATTRIBUTES:

ID Description Raw Value Status Value Worst Threshold

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3 Spin Up Time 4105ms OK 235 234 63

4 Start/Stop Count 1005 OK 253 253 0

5 Reallocated Sector Count 0 OK 253 253 63

6 Read Channel Margin 0 OK 253 253 100

7 Seek Error Rate 0 OK 253 252 0

8 Seek Time Performance 60399 OK 244 233 187

9 Power On Time 37432 OK 223 223 0

A Spin Retry Count 0 OK 253 252 157

B Calibration Retry Count 0 OK 253 252 223

C Power Cycle Count 750 OK 252 252 0

C0 Power off Retract Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C2 Temperature 0 C OK 253 253 0

C3 (Unknown attribute) 5 OK 253 252 0

C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C6 Offline Scan Incorrect. Sector Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Count 0 OK 199 199 0

C8 Write Error Count 0 OK 253 252 0

C9 Off Track Errors 3 OK 253 252 0

CA Direct Address Mark Error Rate 0 OK 253 252 0

CB Error Correction Code Errors 0 OK 253 252 180

CC Raw Read Error Rate 0 OK 253 252 0

CD Thermal Asperity Rate 0 OK 253 252 0

CF Spin High Current 0 OK 253 252 0

D0 Spin Buzz 0 OK 253 252 0

D1 Off Line Seek Performance 0 OK 253 253 0

63 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

64 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

65 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

 

thats a long thread, lol, i didnt feel like deleting all the extra numbers, well uptime is 37432 hours, stop/start 1005

 

Is that power on time in Hours? If it is, it translates to 188 years.

 

When was the last time you ran a defrag on your drive? Might want to look into your high rate of read and seek error rates.

 

9 Power On Time..........:604962
C Power Cycle Count.....:453

 

That's the bad thing. There is no real standardization for S.M.A.R.T. data. Some drives store power on time in hours, some in seconds. Great idea to counteract the least reliable component in a computer, the hard drive, bad idea not to standardize.

 

beats me...LOL! I just copied and pasted what it said

 

its been on long enough that my internal battery died.....