Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?
On 10/25/22 19:22, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 26/10/2022 04:34, William Torrez Corea wrote:
Model Family: Toshiba L200 (SMR)
I would not consider a HDD with shingled magnetic recording as a storage
to install OS.
+1
I prefer SSD's for OS drives.
I have been careful not to buy SMR drives, but AIUI they are cost
effective for large sequential write workloads -- e.g. music/ photo/
video/ ISO files, backup/ archive tarballs, images/ clones, etc..
... it has another problem:
3 Spin_Up_Time POS--K 100 100 001 - 1318
4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 606
193 Load_Cycle_Count -O--CK 093 093 000 - 75472
It has quite aggressive policy to unload heads. It happens approximately
than once per minute. Following read operations may have noticeable
delay. At first I suspected delays due time required to spin up stopped
disk, but in your case Power_Cycle_Count = Start_Stop_Count, so your
system keeps the disk spinning.
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate -O--CK 100 100 000 - 48930
Frequent shocks, vibration, unstable base may force heads unloading and
following latency in UI.
Good insights.
Here are some other smartctl(8) report values that might be related to
slowness:
Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
Page Offset Size Value Flags Description
...
0x02 0x010 4 48930 --- Overlimit Shock Events
...
0x03 0x028 4 36105 --- Read Recovery Attempts
SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
...
0x0009 4 106670 Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy
The drive operating vibration specification is only 1.0 G (5 to 500 Hz):
https://www.toshiba-storage.com/products/toshiba-internal-hard-drives-l200/
I wonder if the OP is using the laptop in a moving vehicle, while riding
public transportation, or is handling it roughly (?).
P.S. I have not managed to change heads unload timeout for Toshiba L200
using hdparm. In your case due to high G-Sense_Error_Rate increasing
timeout might be dangerous.
So, you own one of these drives?
David
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