On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 08:55:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:20:51 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >>The primary aim of the project is to find drives with longest "power >>on hours" and minimal number of errors. > >Pardon, but this is idiotic, since the HDDs and SSDs with the longest >power on hours and minimal number of errors are already discontinued, >if you want to buy a new drive. Your statistic at best is useful to >find out what HDDs and SSDs fail much to early, but than consider to >care about the usage. Some people turn their computers on and off >several times a day, this isn't good for a HDD, while others have got >uptimes of more than a year. Other people are maintaining SSDs with kid >gloves, OTOH other are using SSDs in the same way, as they use/d HDDs. >btw. I'm using my SSDs without kid gloves and when I wanted to order >additional SSDs of the same kind, I couldn't get them anymore, let >alone the best HDDs I every used. Not to mention what crap as e.g. GVFS does to green external HDDs :D. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi gvfs | grep Description Description : Dummy package A dummy packe is required to solve insane, useless dependencies. My external WD green drive stays asleep, it does not spin down and up again and again. It did, before I replaced GVFS by a dummy package. GVFS is just one HDD killer of several HDD killers. -- $ pacman -Q linux{,-rt-securityink,-rt,-rt-pussytoes,-rt-cornflower} linux 4.15.6-1 linux-rt-securityink 4.14.20_rt17-1 linux-rt 4.14.12_rt10-1 linux-rt-pussytoes 4.14.8_rt9-2 linux-rt-cornflower 4.11.12_rt16-1