On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 23:34 +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:58:59 +0100 > Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If we're comparing drives, my 8x WD20EARS / EARX have been spinning > > for years. 2 drives just failed after ~3.4 years uptime (24/7) and > > over 400,000 head parkings. They had weekly SMART self-test and > > monthly RAID6 scrubs, and a few unexpected power losses. Good value. > > Why do you hate your drives so much, or haven't you heard of 'wdidle3'? > Or maybe I misunderstand and this whole endeavor was actually an experiment on > how soon will they fail from all that ridiculous amount of head parkings. I was going to say the same, but you beat me to it. The "huge" head parking figure is down to a firmware bug. I would also note that "some" WD REDS also have the same problem (seems to be limited batch(es) in my personal experience, 2 out of 6, and idle3ctl for linux fixes the problem). -- 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
