On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:44:41 +0600 Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:27:42 +0900 > Christian Balzer <chibi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > RAID until they get a non-braindead firmware that won't park (look at > > the Load_Cycle_Count in SMART) the heads every 30 seconds, come rain > > or shine. > > So I seem to have such firmware, what do I win? > An inflatable washer machine... > Device Model: ST1000DM003-9YN162 > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age > Always - 2796 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 > 100 000 Old_age Always - 326 > Read the respective threads on the Seagate forums. If your drive is not busy most of the time, once the heads get parked (unloaded), they will stay that way, until it gets accessed again. However if the drive is busy every second or so, the aforementioned statement holds. Device Model: ST2000DM001-9YN164 Firmware Version: CC4C 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 2419 Those were accumulated in the first 2 days or so of that drive, before I set the APM level to 255. -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer chibi@xxxxxxx Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications http://www.gol.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
