Package: smartmontools Version: 6.5+svn4324-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
Some time ago I received a replacement WD Green drive via RMA and forgot to set the power settings. By default, those drives park heads after 8 seconds[1], but that can easily be changed with a tools like 'idle3-tools'[2]. When I realized my error a year later, the drive had more than 421,000 cycles. It is rated for 500,000 or so. It would be nice if smartd's default configuration could send a brief warning when attribute 193 (load cycle count) advances too quickly. I don't remember the initial count on the refurbished drive and unfortunately cannot make a good suggestion, but it should probably be something like 50,000 or lower in less than a year. Thank you! Best regards, Felix [1] hdparm(8), see description of '-J' [2] http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/ -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages smartmontools depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.4 ii init-system-helpers 1.51 ii libc6 2.26-4 ii libcap-ng0 0.7.7-3.1+b1 ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-19 ii libselinux1 2.7-2+b1 ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-19 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 Versions of packages smartmontools recommends: ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.4-1 Versions of packages smartmontools suggests: ii gsmartcontrol 1.1.3-1 ii smart-notifier 0.28-5 -- no debconf information
