T23 Hard Drive Load Cycle Count

[TimGS]

Hi,

My hard drive's Load Cycle Count on my T23 (bought secondhand just over a year ago) is 939700. This appears from what I have read elsewhere to be very high, and indicative that I should really be getting another hard drive.

Is this the case - should I get another hard drive sooner rather than later - or am I worrying too much

-- Tim.


(On a related issue, I have installed Ubuntu, but implemented the fix to avoid the aggressive power management issue that appears to plague alot of laptops.)

[aaa]

I'm assuming the drive's pretty old to begin with. If it is an old drive, then you should be prepared for it to fail, via backups at least if not getting a new drive.

[TimGS]

Thanks for the reply.

I regularly backup files anyway via Unison file synchronizer to my desktop, but from the sounds of it I need another drive really.

Despite being a relatively old machine, it happily runs a few web browsers, two VMs and the GIMP (I'm a web developer); so as a backup machine, plus occasional use away from home, I won't begrudge it a new hard drive.

-- Tim.