My harddisk Load_Cycle_Count

[mohan.10]

Hii guys..The main reason i left ubuntu and shifted to fedora is
1.Somebody told me that ubuntu has a bug which eats up harddisk as Load_Cycle_Count is very high in it.
2.Fedora is pretty good for programming(I am a computer science student)

Today i was browsing and came across the command for counting these cycles..I issued sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count and got an out put [HTML][193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 126654
[varma@mohan ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 126659
[varma@mohan ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 126659
[varma@mohan ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 126659
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Note that i issued same command several times after spans of time..I was shocked to know that the count increased by 5 between first two outputs which are issued with a span of 5 mins.. after every 600000 cycles harddisk has to be replaced..So is this a common thing or problem only to me??however the count remained same after some time...Waiting for a reply..thanks

[mohan.10]

After posting this..this is the out put..[varma@mohan ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 126663

I am afraid what to do?

[thunderogg]

Have a look at this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=186917&highlight=LOAD_CYCLE_COUNT
There you'll find what you need! :)