[mythtv-users] read-only disk in a storage group?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 21:19:53 -0700, you wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 10:43:03 -0700, you wrote:
>> <snip>
>
>The SMT drive on
>> its default settings shuts down to conserve power after a relatively
>> small idle time,
>>
>
>You'll want to keep an eye on your Load Cycle Count in the SMART data. The
>default 8 second idle (and thus very high rates of increasing LCC) on WD
>Green drives has been faulted for the "early" failure of many of those
>drives. If you are able (if a utility exists), consider lengthening that
>time to a minute or longer, or disable it if you prefer longevity to power
>savings.
>
>Karl

I am aware of that problem with the WD Green drives - I got caught by
it with my first 2 Tbyte WD black drive, which now has a Load Cycle
Count of 326940.  Fortunately, WD Black drives seem to be much more
tolerant of high counts, and it has shown no signs of problems.  I
would not want a WD Green to have a counter that high, and I always
use idle3ctl to change their timeout.

But it does not seem to be a problem with the ST8000AS0002 - its
timeout is quite a bit longer and nothing is accessing the drive
except when I play one of the files on it.  Its Load Cycle Count is
currently 28.