From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:43:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n2q5bdc1c8b1004181043wd19060d4p41da5702f3cc92d7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l2k5bdc1c8b1004181042m2179de9aqe3600750c2aeb1f8@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-18 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-18 11:16 [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format meino.cramer
2010-04-18 14:10 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-04-18 14:16 ` meino.cramer
2010-04-18 17:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-18 15:41 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-18 16:11 ` meino.cramer
2010-04-18 17:42 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-18 17:43 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2010-04-18 22:19 ` pk
2010-04-18 23:10 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-18 23:46 ` Mark Knecht
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