December 4, 201213 yr I have a smart attribute showing up in the unmenu/mymenu/smart tab saying load_cycle_count=. It keeps climbing up, is this something to worry about or just a tally of the drive being used? Using UnRaid ver. 5.0rc5 and unmenu ver. 1.5.
December 4, 201213 yr As far as I know the only drives that have an issue with the load cycle count are WD drives, and the head parking frequency can be adjusted from 8 seconds to 300 seconds by using WDIDLE
December 4, 201213 yr Author So you think that it is not a problem/issue seeing the load cycle count come up on this drive, or it shouldn't be showing up, you would only expect to see it from a WD drive?
December 5, 201213 yr If you use the drive for anything, the load cycle count will inevitably increase. It is a count of how often the drive has loaded the heads from their parking position. If the drive is idle for a length of time the heads will be parked as a routine precaution against accidents. The WD drives have an issue whereby they unload the heads after a very short time by default - after about 8 seconds I think - whereas many other drives wait a for longer period of inactivity before unloading the heads. For the WD drives this can result in more load cycles than people like to see. However, it is highly usage dependent. The drive manufacturers generally rate the drives for hundreds of thousands of cycles anyway. In my main server I have all WD drives. The highest load cycle count that I have is over 21,000 on a drive with 15,000 power on hours. 21,000 is nothing. If I had 200,000 then I might be thinking do I need to replace the drive in a year or so. As another data point - my oldest drive has 29,000 hours and a load cycle count of only 4,800.
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