Arno Wagner wrote in news:6735naF2lsdshU1@mid.individual.net
> Previously Franc Zabkar wrote:
> > On 17 Apr 2008 20:56:34 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger to keyboard and composed:
>

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> > >
> > > Arno

> > I demonstrated elsewhere in another NG that in Seagate's case the

Good for you, babblebot-2. The world's a whole different place now.

> > "seek error rate" figure is actually a count, not a rate,

Aah, but on other makes it is a rate then. How interesting.
What -in your expert opinion- would the purpose of such a 'rate'
(not a count, mind you) be.

> > and it is a count of the total number of seeks, not seek errors.

Bummer. Have you informed Seagate of their 'error'.

> > I did this by performing a zero fill operation on a 13GB drive and
> > recording the SMART "seek error rate" parameter before and after.
>
> > See ...
>
> > http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c63d875bfaf0d4
>
> > ... for my results.
>
> Ah, yes. Bottom line, the "Seek Error" Attribute is pretty meaningless,

> if you do not know the specific drive.

Gee Babblebot, maybe there is something to the term "vendor specific", after all.

>
> Arno