Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:45:07 +0200 | From | devzero@web ... | Subject | Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux |
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on a second system , my wd drive shows this values:
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 853 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 170 170 000 Old_age Always - 90960
absolutely scary.....
meanwhile, i got wdidle3 from WD support and set it to 25secs (factory support seems to be at 8 secs) - but still waiting for an answer if this is a bug or not.
i`m really wondering why support is so quiet here.... anybody got a response from support about this?
will take a look how the drive behaves with windows......maybe things look different there.
List: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux From: "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko () ursulin ! net> Date: 2008-04-16 19:46:33 Message-ID: 200804162046.33245.tvrtko () ursulin ! net [Download message RAW]
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 12:40:14 Helge Hafting wrote: > Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 66 > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 197 197 000 Old_age Always - 10233 > > > > At this rate the disk would reach it's design limit for load/unload > > cycles in around 80 days. Not good - so I implemented a lame workaround > > of keeping disk busy every couple of seconds - hopefully that won't kill > > it sooner that unloads would.. > > Yuck, how stupid! > But the solution is simple. Make sure to get a warranty of much more > than 80 days. Use RAID-1 (or backup often). > Just let those disks destroy themselves (they _are_ faulty) and > get new ones all the time. As long as they make them this stupid, you > won't have to buy new disks again. Free warranty replacements forever.
:) I am not so enthusiastic about fiddling with my NAS box every couple of months.
> To be a bit more constructive, tell them about this strategy. Perhaps > they get > busy fixing the firmware?
I have suggested exactly what you say - unfortunately the conversation has gone cold since. Maybe they are busy already. :)
Tvrtko
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