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WD Black 1TB 2.5" High Power-off Retract Count and LCC

February 19th, 2021, 3:05

I have a 1TB WD Black 2.5" I've since about mid 2018 and I recently checked its SMART health.

It has very high Power-off Retract Count and Load Cycle Count for its age I assume, or is this normal in some cases?
None of my other drives have anywhere near those values.

These are the SMART values
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I've use it for nothing else but movies now but I used to have it in a Macbook and then a windows server I use for game servers.
Now its in my main windows machine as of recently.

I don't really care too much about this drive and nothing important is on it, but I am very curious why those numbers are so high and what it means for the drive.

Thanks.

Re: WD Black 1TB 2.5" High Power-off Retract Count and LCC

February 20th, 2021, 10:33

What is the power scheme like on your computer? Perhaps "turn disks off whenever possible" is enabled?

Re: WD Black 1TB 2.5" High Power-off Retract Count and LCC

February 21st, 2021, 1:43

labtech wrote:What is the power scheme like on your computer? Perhaps "turn disks off whenever possible" is enabled?


I'm actually not sure, I've only just put it in my windows machine and the other OSs have been wiped. Maybe something to do with Mac OS on a macbook?
I thought it might have been the program I was using reporting the wrong values but other programs report the same values.

Re: WD Black 1TB 2.5" High Power-off Retract Count and LCC

February 22nd, 2021, 23:06

You can check in system preferences
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