Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>
>> Hi Gandalf,
>>
>> thanks a lot for your extensive explanations!!!
>> Unfortunately, I already bought two of those drives...according
>> to your explanation about the expected lifetime of those I think
>> I have done the complete wrong decision...
>> But what could be the reason for building a drive with THAT setup...
>> it literally kills itsself...
>>
>> May be itz is possible to "tune" the drive to not to save such great
>> amount of energy (read: Do not park heads that fast) via hdparm???
>>
>> Best regards,
>> mcc
>

Sorry!! Bad writing. I meant to say "I have no data but I don't think
the drive is killing itself."

Sorry!


> I have no data but I don't think the drive isn't killing itself. I
> have one in a Windows box and I'm not seeing this problem. My
> suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up
> once every two minutes and then lets the drive go back to sleep. That
> amounts to 30  load cycles an hour which hits the 300K spec in 13-14
> months. I don't know that the drive will die when it gets to 300K. All
> I know is that's the spec WD gives, not only for these Green-series
> drives, but also for their Blue, Black and RAID Edition drives. The
> thing is I have RAID Edition drives in similar systems and they aren't
> racking up this count value so they presumably will last longer.
>
> I have NO data as to why this is happening. It just is. I figure I've
> got 6 months to find a solution, and then without a solution 6 more
> months to swap the drives out if I get too worried.
>
> - Mark
>