Life time write from host number keep increasing !!

[welliam]

Hi
I have a new seagate 7200.12 1 tera drive and I have a strange number keep increased in hd tune , it called "life time write from host "

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is that danger ?

 

[jsc]

I googled the phrase "life time write from host " and got no hits at all. And Status says "OK".

What does the program say it is?

 

[welliam]

hi
nothing in the manual - also the value display negative numbers now
it seems a recycle counter but for what ??

 

[fzabkar]

HD Tune often displays nonsensical results, eg negative counts.

Either of the following will produce better output.

HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows / Linux):
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HDDScan for Windows:
http://hddscan.com/

See this article for an explanation of the SMART attributes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

The "life time write from host" attribute is a count of the total number of sectors written to the drive by your PC during the drive's lifetime, ie Total LBAs Written.

 

[welliam]

Best answer selected by mdk4ever.