Confirmed premature hard disk failure

[Pierre-Yves]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:35 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Pierre-Yves <pingou at pingoured.fr> writes:
> 
> >> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG   VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE     UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> >> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012 001   001   000    Old_age  Always  -       5178492
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   060   060   000    Old_age  Always
> > -       404339
> >
> > Do they mean Value or Raw_value ?
> 
> Raw_value. Value (and worst) - compared to the threshold - are some kind
> of indication how long the drive is expected to live.
So the higher the better for value and worst ?

Thanks for the informations,

Pierre