[mythtv-users] WD Green drives (was "complete system meltdown")

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 03:40:50 UTC 2014


Hoi Yan,

Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 4:30:48 AM, you wrote:


> On 02/10/2014 07:27 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just wondering because, of course, I'm RMA'ing it and will just be 
>> getting another Green back
>>
> Maybe someone can chime in with more knowledge, but ISTR an issue with
> the Greens and excessive head parking?  There's a setting somewhere that
> disables and/or reduces parking and increases life?
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I have a duo (mdraid level 1) now running for almost a year. Since
there is at least every 5 minutes some drive activity (saving sensor
readings etc.) it's never going really to sleep. I think you can tune
things with hdparm and/or ide-smart.

Tot mails,
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