It should come up on the menu bar, next to the Wifi Signal bar. Click it and it will show a huge list, scroll down and youll see load cycle count.
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It should come up on the menu bar, next to the Wifi Signal bar. Click it and it will show a huge list, scroll down and youll see load cycle count.
Use this then: http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php
Look up in attributes you will see load cycle count.
ok thanks..it says my drive passed. load cycle was 99 value/worst
and 2466 raw value.
what numbers should i look out for?
so what number should i start to be weary about? the higher the worse? whats normal range?
well you can check your specific drive, but yes they are made for anything from 300k to 600k cycle counts on average, that doesnt mean it is likely to die if it goes over that, just that it is operating outside what it was tested for, but making regular backups seems a good idea
I think I have found some of the solution to this madness.
I managed to get a new Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gb and after maybe 2 hours my load cycle count had risen to 250. When I put my head against the hard drive, I had found that there was a consistent click every few seconds and when I checked diagnostics every click corresponded to one load cycle count.
The solution to stop the load cycle count rising to astronomical figures like my Seagate had shown, I used HDAPM as I mentioned in the post earlier.
This solution works and is tried and tested with a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gb (WD500BEVT) and the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 (before I had returned it ofcourse).
I have only returned the Seagate because the problem of beach balling and contant (whisper quiet) clicking was driving me insane and for my mental health decided to try this drive. I do not want to put off potential buyers from buying the seagate, but in all honesty... I don't see any difference
I managed to get a new Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gb and after maybe 2 hours my load cycle count had risen to 250. When I put my head against the hard drive, I had found that there was a consistent click every few seconds and when I checked diagnostics every click corresponded to one load cycle count.
The solution to stop the load cycle count rising to astronomical figures like my Seagate had shown, I used HDAPM as I mentioned in the post earlier.
This solution works and is tried and tested with a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gb (WD500BEVT) and the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 (before I had returned it ofcourse).
I have only returned the Seagate because the problem of beach balling and contant (whisper quiet) clicking was driving me insane and for my mental health decided to try this drive. I do not want to put off potential buyers from buying the seagate, but in all honesty... I don't see any difference
I think I have found some of the solution to this madness.
I managed to get a new Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gb and after maybe 2 hours my load cycle count had risen to 250. When I put my head against the hard drive, I had found that there was a consistent click every few seconds and when I checked diagnostics every click corresponded to one load cycle count.
The solution to stop the load cycle count rising to astronomical figures like my Seagate had shown, I used HDAPM as I mentioned in the post earlier.
This solution works and is tried and tested with a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gb (WD500BEVT) and the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 (before I had returned it ofcourse).
I have only returned the Seagate because the problem of beach balling and contant (whisper quiet) clicking was driving me insane and for my mental health decided to try this drive. I do not want to put off potential buyers from buying the seagate, but in all honesty... I don't see any difference
yeah well i dont seem to have any problems and the only clicking i hear is when i load up and its very quite. but what does this HDAPM do? should i do this or is it not necessary?
edit: and thank you for all of your help