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On 10 May 2012 14:01, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion |
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> <invasivenorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my |
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>>> videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing |
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>>> these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. |
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>>> When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up as good? |
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>>> Are they as dependable as a plain drive? I guess they are more |
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>>> efficient and I get that but do they break quicker, more often or no |
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>>> difference? |
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>>> I have noticed that they tend to spin slower and are cheaper. That much |
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>>> I have figured out. Other than that, I can't see any other difference. |
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>>> Data speeds seem to be about the same. |
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>> They have an ugly tendency to nod off at 6 second intervals. |
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>> This runs up "193 Load_Cycle_Count" unacceptably: as many |
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>> as a few hundred thousand in a year & a million cycles is |
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>> getting close to the lifetime limit on most hard drives. I end |
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>> up running some iteration of |
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>> # hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda |
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>> every boot. |
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> Very true about the 193 count. Here's a drive in a system that was |
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> built in Jan., 2010 so it's a bit over 2 years old at this point. It's |
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> on 24/7 and not rebooted except for more major updates, etc. My tests |
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> say the drive spins down and starts back up every 2 minutes and has |
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> been doing so for about 28 months. IIRC the 193 spec on this drive was |
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> something like 300000 max with the drive currently clocking in at |
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> 700488. I don't see any evidence that it's going to fail but I am |
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> trying to make sure it's backed up often. Being that it's gone >2x at |
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> this point I will swap the drive out in the early summer no matter |
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> what. This week I'll be visiting where the machine is so I'm going to |
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> put a backup drive in the box to get ready. |
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Yes, I just learned about this problem in 2009 or so, & |
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checked on my FreeBSD laptop, which turned out to be |
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at >400000. It only made it another month or so before |
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having unrecoverable errors. |
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Now, I can't conclusively demonstrate that the 193 |
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Load_Cycle_Count was somehow causitive, but I |
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gots my suspicions. Many of 'em highly suspectable. |