Re: Peculiarities of Toshiba L200 2.5in HDD
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 26/10/2022 10:42, David Christensen wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> I have a Toshiba L200 HDWK105 SATA 3 500G CMR disk as a secondary storage. I
> do not like that heads unload timeout is just a few seconds and such state
> is hidden, so udisks2 wakes it up every 10 minutes to poll for its SMART
> state. I see a lot of warnings in docs for HDD tools and I am unsure how to
> stay on the safe margin during experiments.
>
> I do not expect anything directly related to the original subject in this
> thread, but to not hijack this thread, you may ask your questions e.g. in
> response to
No, no, you have found the most likely problem.
The originator of the thread was complaining about poor
performance.
Using a shingled drive with a short unload timeout is definitely
going to cause poor performance.
-dsr-
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