From: David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 21:24:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510192434.GA21418@grusum.endjinn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+efqEoLv9cvW5eF4=_8PkNC_gYoWQ236=Z=jAM+aK0EdBA@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mark Knecht wrote:
>On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion
><invasivenorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> They have an ugly tendency to nod off at 6 second intervals.
>> This runs up "193 Load_Cycle_Count" unacceptably: as many
>> as a few hundred thousand in a year & a million cycles is
>> getting close to the lifetime limit on most hard drives. I end
>> up running some iteration of
>> # hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
>
>Very true about the 193 count.
There was some bug, IIRC.
http://jeanbruenn.info/2011/01/23/wd-green-discs-and-the-problem-in-linux-load-cycle-count/
and search for 'linux Load_Cycle_Count' using your favorite search site.
HTH,
-dnh
--
Well, merry frelling christmas! -- Aeryn Sun, Farscape - 4x13 - Terra Firma
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2012-05-09 8:47 [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Dale
2012-05-09 9:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 9:52 ` Dale
2012-05-09 11:32 ` Daniel Troeder
2012-05-09 11:51 ` Dale
2012-05-10 19:39 ` David Haller
2012-05-09 21:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 22:24 ` Dale
2012-05-09 22:48 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 23:49 ` Dale
2012-05-10 1:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10 1:52 ` Adam Carter
2012-05-10 12:53 ` Todd Goodman
2012-05-09 23:37 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 23:58 ` Dale
2012-05-10 7:03 ` Mick
2012-05-10 11:55 ` napalm
2012-05-10 12:38 ` Dale
2012-05-10 13:27 ` napalm
2012-05-10 21:39 ` Dale
2012-05-10 22:53 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-11 0:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-11 1:10 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:38 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-09 11:47 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-09 12:06 ` mike
2012-05-09 13:30 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-09 12:29 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 16:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-09 17:28 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-09 18:42 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-09 18:53 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 14:20 ` [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 14:50 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-10 19:57 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-10 21:08 ` Stroller
2012-05-11 1:01 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 5:18 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-05-11 12:59 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 17:56 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-11 10:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-11 22:48 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-12 1:31 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-12 18:17 ` walt
2012-05-14 1:44 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14 2:13 ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 15:26 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-14 15:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 15:52 ` ny6p01
2012-05-26 11:18 ` luis jure
2012-05-26 13:56 ` ny6p01
2012-05-14 16:13 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-05-14 17:13 ` Dale
2012-05-14 20:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-15 0:46 ` Dale
2012-05-15 17:01 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-15 17:15 ` Dale
2012-05-15 21:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-18 12:29 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-05-15 17:25 ` john
2012-05-15 23:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-16 0:41 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 16:14 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:05 ` Dale
2012-05-17 19:13 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-17 18:58 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 17:47 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-17 19:14 ` ny6p01
2012-05-17 19:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-17 23:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-17 19:29 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 21:10 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-17 18:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-17 20:13 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:50 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-05-21 3:24 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-07-03 11:11 ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [SOLVED] Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails Michael Scherer
2012-05-17 20:59 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-23 2:10 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-23 6:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-19 3:18 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-19 16:59 ` Arttu V.
2012-05-26 11:33 ` luis jure
2012-05-14 18:25 ` Tanstaafl
2012-05-14 19:11 ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-14 19:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-15 0:03 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-15 0:05 ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-15 0:16 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 20:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:01 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 21:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 21:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-14 23:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-14 23:35 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:26 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 23:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-14 21:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-09 13:15 ` [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-09 22:37 ` Dale
2012-05-10 16:20 ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:01 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-10 18:13 ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-10 18:51 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-12 9:34 ` Mick
2012-05-12 9:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-13 9:35 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 19:24 ` David Haller [this message]
2012-05-11 1:15 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-05-12 18:50 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-13 9:38 ` David Haller
2012-05-21 21:05 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-05-21 22:44 ` Andrew Hoffman
2012-05-10 19:36 ` David Haller
2012-05-10 21:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-10 20:17 ` Mark Knecht
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