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Any free load cycle monitoring software?

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myuserid08

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As the title suggests, is there any free hard drive load cycle monitoring software. Or even a command line would do if anyone knows of one.
Thanks,
 
I found this at Apple's forum:
install the smartmontools Darwin port.

Run the following in your terminal:

sudo smartctl -a "YOUR_DISK_NAME_HERE" | grep Load; date

(Your HDD name can be found from the "About Your Mac" menu. Should be something like /dev/disk0s4).

Output should be like this:
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 011 011 000 Old_age Always - 179002
Sun Nov 4 16:29:04 EST 2007
Click to expand...

Not tried it myself, but I assume it should work okay.
 
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