Hi Folks, I have a Seagate Backup Plus 5TB external drive I picked up on Black Friday 2014, so it's only about 8 months old. When I bought it, I immediately added it to my pool and set it to never sleep in SeaTools. Additionally, I have windows set to never sleep the hard drives as well in the advanced power settings.
The other day, Stablebit Scanner throws me a warning, saying I've now exceeded 300,000 "load cycles". Three days later, that number has jumped by 1,400 and is growing steadily and quickly.
I don't think the drive is actually parking that often, but what I'm wondering is twofold threefold:
1) How can I tell for sure? Is it possible that the SMART data is reporting incorrectly? Is that a likely scenario?
2) Is there a setting I could have missed for sleep or something? When I set up my pool, I told windows power settings not to ever put the disks to sleep, and on every drive I add, I make sure to tell it not to put the drive to sleep in the Firmware. I thought I had my bases covered.
3) But even if it were parking the head routinely, it shouldn't be able to accumulate 1,400+ in just three days, right?
I ran a full sector scan and everything came back perfect. Would I be able to RMA this with seagate even though Seatools checks out okay when I scan it with that? Should I be worried? All other SMART parameters seem just fine. The load cycle count is the only one throwing errors or causing concern with Scanner.
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matthew.austin
Hi Folks, I have a Seagate Backup Plus 5TB external drive I picked up on Black Friday 2014, so it's only about 8 months old. When I bought it, I immediately added it to my pool and set it to never sleep in SeaTools. Additionally, I have windows set to never sleep the hard drives as well in the advanced power settings.
The other day, Stablebit Scanner throws me a warning, saying I've now exceeded 300,000 "load cycles". Three days later, that number has jumped by 1,400 and is growing steadily and quickly.
I don't think the drive is actually parking that often, but what I'm wondering is
twofoldthreefold:1) How can I tell for sure? Is it possible that the SMART data is reporting incorrectly? Is that a likely scenario?
2) Is there a setting I could have missed for sleep or something? When I set up my pool, I told windows power settings not to ever put the disks to sleep, and on every drive I add, I make sure to tell it not to put the drive to sleep in the Firmware. I thought I had my bases covered.
3) But even if it were parking the head routinely, it shouldn't be able to accumulate 1,400+ in just three days, right?
I ran a full sector scan and everything came back perfect. Would I be able to RMA this with seagate even though Seatools checks out okay when I scan it with that? Should I be worried? All other SMART parameters seem just fine. The load cycle count is the only one throwing errors or causing concern with Scanner.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give!
-Matt
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