On Wednesday 16 April 2008 12:40:14 Helge Hafting wrote: > Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 66 > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 197 197 000 Old_age Always - 10233 > > > > At this rate the disk would reach it's design limit for load/unload > > cycles in around 80 days. Not good - so I implemented a lame workaround > > of keeping disk busy every couple of seconds - hopefully that won't kill > > it sooner that unloads would.. > > Yuck, how stupid! > But the solution is simple. Make sure to get a warranty of much more > than 80 days. Use RAID-1 (or backup often). > Just let those disks destroy themselves (they _are_ faulty) and > get new ones all the time. As long as they make them this stupid, you > won't have to buy new disks again. Free warranty replacements forever. :) I am not so enthusiastic about fiddling with my NAS box every couple of months. > To be a bit more constructive, tell them about this strategy. Perhaps > they get > busy fixing the firmware? I have suggested exactly what you say - unfortunately the conversation has gone cold since. Maybe they are busy already. :) Tvrtko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
