Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 09:05:19 schrieb Tejun Heo: > Hello, > > Sorry about very late reply. > > On 02/09/2010 03:33 AM, Al Bogner wrote: > > I append info of an 1.5 TB WD Caviar green drive with a lot of start/stop > > cycles. I would like to mention, that I have 4 1 TB Caviar green > > (WD10EADS) which work fine! > > > > The e-SATA drive is used with this machine: > > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_b214fce2-b5b5-4a32-ba7e-cf9de6d5575 > >7 but has problems with other machines too. > > > > I use Openesuse 11.1 > > Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default > > FANTEC Fanbox FB-35US2 (probably JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller) > > storage-fixup-0.2-25.3 is installed, but not especially configured > > > > If you need more info let me know. > > How fast does it increase? ie. counts / hour. Hi, I can't give you exact values. It depends how busy the drive is. If the drivec is busy the drive has less spindowns. Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 127 ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 219 219 021 Pre-fail Always - 4025 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 31 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 644 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 116 113 000 Old_age Always - 34 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 34 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 655 Since I used wdidle3 and switched to no spindown (62 min) it looks like this: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 383 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 26 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 4 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 819 Al -- 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