@WikiGoblin
I have the same problem.
You can see the Start_Stop_Count of the disc with telnet:
~ # /usr/sbin/smartctl -d ata -A /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [arm-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 162 158 021 Pre-fail Always - 6900
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 4813
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 3789
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 48
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 4
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 4813
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 115 098 000 Old_age Always - 35
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
After my Start_Stop_Count goes to 5000 in 4 Month (an my smart healt value from 100% to 96%) I searched for the real causes ( www.wireshark.org ):
In my windows network same computers are very chatty and cyclic wake up the mybook. I changed the workgroup name of the white book to another workgroup name.
I also killed this start scripts:
~ # ls -l /etc/init.d/backup/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3342 Mar 4 2009 S97twonkyserver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 1 1970 S9iTune -> /etc/init.d/_SK9iTune
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1300 Mar 4 2009 S9mDNSResponder
Now I have only 2 unattended startups daily. I think, this are the internal wix… daemons. (type ps in commandline)