load cycle

I've been following the current controversy about whether Ubuntu kills
laptop drives:

https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html

I don't use Ubuntu but I did

smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda | grep 193

and got a count of over 1 million. The product manual for my drive
(Seagate) says 300K on/off cycles at 25 degrees, 50% humidity and only
100K in less favorable conditions. Can I believe the output of smartctl?
I've now done all the things needed to turn off agressive power-saving
but I'm wondering whether I should get a new drive ASAP. Is there some
way to tell whether the drive is damaged?

Bob T.
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Relevant Pages

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