<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Ian Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" target="_blank">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Karl Newman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newmank1@asme.org" target="_blank">newmank1@asme.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Ian Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" target="_blank">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><br>ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE<br>
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193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1007688<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Your load cycle count is very high and can lead to failure. Wikipedia says for 2.5" laptop drives the lifetime LCC is 300,000 to 600,000 (not sure about 3.5" desktop drives). You're at almost twice that, so you may want to consider a replacement drive before it fails. The Green drives tend to accumulate high LCCs because their idle head park timeout is very short (8 seconds?). For WD Green drive use in a Linux application it is normally recommended to us the Western Digital utility WDIDLE3 (or idle3-tools?) to change that timeout to 300 seconds or so, or disable it altogether.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div>I'll grab the idle3-tools. Is it something that needs to be run at each boot or is once enough? <br>
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</div></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">No, just once is fine. Also note that there are various utility ISOs (like Ultimate Boot CD) which already have that utility.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Karl<br></div></div>