On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM, <meino.cra...@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 >
