Hello, On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: >On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion ><invasivenor...@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
