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From: David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:58:55
Message-Id: 20120510192434.GA21418@grusum.endjinn.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? by Mark Knecht
1 Hello,
2
3 On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mark Knecht wrote:
4 >On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion
5 ><invasivenorman@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >> They have an ugly tendency to nod off at 6 second intervals.
7 >> This runs up "193 Load_Cycle_Count" unacceptably: as many
8 >> as a few hundred thousand in a year & a million cycles is
9 >> getting close to the lifetime limit on most hard drives.  I end
10 >> up running some iteration of
11 >> # hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
12 >
13 >Very true about the 193 count.
14
15 There was some bug, IIRC.
16 http://jeanbruenn.info/2011/01/23/wd-green-discs-and-the-problem-in-linux-load-cycle-count/
17
18 and search for 'linux Load_Cycle_Count' using your favorite search site.
19
20 HTH,
21 -dnh
22
23 --
24 Well, merry frelling christmas! -- Aeryn Sun, Farscape - 4x13 - Terra Firma