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From: Justin Goldberg on 29 Aug 2008 10:40
What is the best practice for extending your hard drive's life? I
remember reading about putting the MBR after the first 64 mb, [or
sector or some other metric], of a drive? Or if that is not possible,
then putting the first partition after 64mb?

I remember reading this somewhere ( I can't remember where though,
could it have been the partition magic or system commander manual?)
and I wonder if it still applies.

Regards,
Justin,
hdd newbie
From: Rod Speed on 29 Aug 2008 13:38
Justin Goldberg <justgold79(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the best practice for extending your hard drive's life?

Make sure it doest get too hot and dont use it as a football.

> I remember reading about putting the MBR after the first
> 64 mb, [or sector or some other metric], of a drive?

Thats got nothing to do with its life. And doesnt apply to modern drives anyway.

> Or if that is not possible, then putting the first partition after 64mb?

Pointless as far as the life of the drive is concerned.

> I remember reading this somewhere ( I can't remember where though,
> could it have been the partition magic or system commander manual?)
> and I wonder if it still applies.

Nope.


From: Arno Wagner on 29 Aug 2008 23:22
Previously Justin Goldberg <justgold79(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best practice for extending your hard drive's life? I
> remember reading about putting the MBR after the first 64 mb, [or
> sector or some other metric], of a drive? Or if that is not possible,
> then putting the first partition after 64mb?

All irrelevant today. I also doubt it was ever relevant.

> I remember reading this somewhere ( I can't remember where though,
> could it have been the partition magic or system commander manual?)
> and I wonder if it still applies.

Definitely not.

Arno
From: Justin Goldberg on 30 Aug 2008 12:20
On Aug 29, 12:38 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Justin Goldberg <justgol...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the best practice for extending your hard drive's life?
>
> Make sure it doest get too hot and dont use it as a football.

How do I monitor the temperature? Software?

And what is a good temperature?

>
> > I remember reading about putting the MBR after the first
> > 64 mb, [or sector or some other metric], of a drive?
>
> Thats got nothing to do with its life. And doesnt apply to modern drives anyway.
>
> > Or if that is not possible, then putting the first partition after 64mb?
>
> Pointless as far as the life of the drive is concerned.
>
> > I remember reading this somewhere ( I can't remember where though,
> > could it have been the partition magic or system commander manual?)
> > and I wonder if it still applies.
>
> Nope.

From: Justin Goldberg on 30 Aug 2008 12:43
On Aug 29, 12:38 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Justin Goldberg <justgol...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the best practice for extending your hard drive's life?
>
> Make sure it doest get too hot and dont use it as a football.

Okay, I googled my drive and found it's operating temperature is 5-55
degrees c. The DTemp program shows "Temperature check capability not
found".

Also the Load Cycle Count is the only one in red, but it isn't a life
critical attribute according to the program. It's value is 67 and it's
threshold is 70.

Does the drive itself say what is life critical?
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