Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?
On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 16:56 +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2014-05-12, Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is actually pretty important because all my backup data is stored
> >> there.
> >
> > I fed a mouse to an intertube seer... could this be what Curt refers too?
> >
> > http://www.ngohq.com/news/19805-critical-design-flaw-found-in-wd-caviar-green-hdds.html
> >
>
> Yeps. I wasn't aware of the problem
Because the drives are very silent, we don't hear them. I don't
remember, but I guess I noticed it, because the external drive was on
the table and the drive's LED stressed me.
> until Ralf spoke of it here (and my
> drive had over 500,000 Load_Cycle_Count thingamajiggers--"smartctl
> /dev/sda -a | grep Load_Cycle").
>
> I used the idle3ctl tool and turned the "feature" off completely (but this
> ain't no production server, or whatever you people call them).
Now that I read it, I remember the name too :D.
Assumed the drive is behind an USB controller and there should be no way
to open the case, then, when using GNOME, MATE, XFCE, replacing GVFS by
a dummy package could help. But it doesn't help always, from time to
time some other software wakes up the sleeping drive.
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