Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/10/2022 10:42, David Christensen wrote: > > > P.S. I have not managed to change heads unload timeout for Toshiba > > > L200 using hdparm. In your case due to high G-Sense_Error_Rate > > > increasing timeout might be dangerous. > > > > So, you own one of these drives? > > I have a Toshiba L200 HDWK105 SATA 3 500G CMR disk as a secondary storage. I > do not like that heads unload timeout is just a few seconds and such state > is hidden, so udisks2 wakes it up every 10 minutes to poll for its SMART > state. I see a lot of warnings in docs for HDD tools and I am unsure how to > stay on the safe margin during experiments. > > I do not expect anything directly related to the original subject in this > thread, but to not hijack this thread, you may ask your questions e.g. in > response to
No, no, you have found the most likely problem. The originator of the thread was complaining about poor performance. Using a shingled drive with a short unload timeout is definitely going to cause poor performance. -dsr-
