On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
Nope, it's not lying -- your drive really has spun down and up again 1.2 million times. The drives are specced as being good for 300k load cycles, so you've done well! But you're also living on borrowed time now..
Also consider that every time it spins up, you'll get a delay on that read or write, which might cause a RAID system to kick the drive out of the array, too.
So far in 4 years I haven't had the drive kicked out of the array so it seems unlikely to happen. It could be that some latency problems on that system are related to drive spin-up. I've set the drive in question to write-mostly which may alleviate that. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/