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

[Greg Cope]

On 11 February 2014 17:12, NickS <nicks272 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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> > > I've been using a couple of 2TB WD Green drives on a 2 year old
> > > mythbackend+frontend machine without any hard-disk problems as far
> > > as I'm aware.
> > >
> > > For reference here are my numbers:
> > >
> > > ~$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep "^193"
> > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  057  057  000    Old_age  Always
> > > -      430024
> >
> > FWIW, According to the green drive spec sheet, the duty cycle for
> > those drives is 300,000 cycles
>
> Oops! I guess I've been lucky it's held out so long. I've now increased
> the timers on each drive to 10mins with:
>     idle3ctl -s148
> but on my next hardware upgrade I'll look at replacing that drive with a
> new one and using the old one as a third drive for as long as it lasts.
>


My Sammy seams ok after a few more than that;

greg at s:~$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sdb | grep "^193"
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   001   001   000    Old_age   Always
    -       5085117


greg at s:~$ dmesg | grep SAM
[   21.946503] ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD154UI, 1AG01118, max UDMA7
[   21.966720] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SAMSUNG HD154UI
 1AG0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5






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