Without reading very closely, do you know about this? I had this problem
with two of my older WD drives.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Format#Special_Consideration_for_WD_Green_HDDs
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[Wily] wakes up green drives without a valid reason
Hi,
a minimalist Wily server install, around 4.5 GiB small does cause
endless spin downs and spin ups, so that green drives get damaged. I
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:24:19 +0200, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
Without reading very closely, do you know about this? I had this
problem with two of my older WD drives.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Format#Special_Consideration_for_WD_Green_HDDs
Yes, but the time when the drive goes to
You didn't read correctly ;).
My drive goes to sleep after 30 minutes and I want it that way.
Some unknown software does wake up the drive.
I don't want that software does wake up my drive.
This is not a drive issue, it's an Ubuntu software issue.
I'm not experiencing this for my Arch Linux
The Green drives are considered to have buggy FIRMWARE, the 4 second
spindown interval being just too short and causing huge problems is desktop
use. The idle3-tools package contains a utility to allow resetting or
disabling
this time
sudo apt-get install idle3-tools
will bring this into
