On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 16:37 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote:
> You might also when to check the head load cycle count with smartctl
>
> smartctl -a /dev/sdX | grep Load_Cycle_Count
>
> They have stupidly aggressive power saving which as I understand it
> cause many unnecessary head parks, depending o
On 12/18/2010 04:02 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Saturday, December 18, 2010 03:08:45 am Terry Barnaby wrote:
>> It is strange, however, how the system can run perfectly fine with good
>> fast disk IO for a while and then go into this slow mode. In the slow
>> mode a command can take 30seconds or mor
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 03:08:45 am Terry Barnaby wrote:
> It is strange, however, how the system can run perfectly fine with good
> fast disk IO for a while and then go into this slow mode. In the slow
> mode a command can take 30seconds or more to run on an unloaded system.
> It smacks of
Hi,
> However, I think I will change the drives. I was hoping to try some WD10EADS
> ones I have, but after your issues I will look at the RE series or
> another make ...
Further to what Lamar has already said. I have a pair of these drives
running under F14 (originally F13) and I would never b
On 12/18/2010 12:00 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday, December 17, 2010 06:14:31 pm Terry Barnaby wrote:
>> The two main RAID1 disks are WD10EARS (Green). I have seen reported some
>> issues with the performance of these but in my case they appear to work
>> fine when the system is running ok.
> [
On Friday, December 17, 2010 06:14:31 pm Terry Barnaby wrote:
> The two main RAID1 disks are WD10EARS (Green). I have seen reported some
> issues with the performance of these but in my case they appear to work
> fine when the system is running ok.
[snip]
> Anyone seen this sort of behaviour befor
This is a strange one.
I have a home server (Pentium Core 2, Intel ICH10, 1G RAM, 2x SATA 1TByte
disks in Raid1, 1x 2TByte SATA and 1 x 1TByte SATA). This is used for normal
NFS and MythTv usage as well as httpd, network routing openvpn etc. It has been
running for about 2 years and 1 year under F
