On 10/04/12 11:33, Russell Coker wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Toby Corkindale<toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
Avoid the WD "Green" drives -- not only does the performance suck, but WD have messed around with the power saving options. You can't adjust them from the OS via smartctl or hdparm any more, and by default the drive will spin down every eight seconds if idle.
Even on a mostly-idle Linux system, this results in a spin-up at least once per minute. Yeah. Expect your spindle motor to burn out in a few months.
When did WD do that? I've got a 1TB WD green drive that doesn't have such problems.
All of them, I think -- I've seen it on 750G, 1500G and 2000G drives at least. What does the output of this look like on your drives? smartctl -a /dev/sdb | grep Load_Cycle_Count (replace /dev/sdb with appropriate drive(s)) Toby