10 Oct
2013
10 Oct
'13
3:47 p.m.
On 10 October 2013 15:38, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
(Aside: anyone with WD "green" disks would be advised to check whether they are running up large Load_Cycle_Count counts; anecdotal evidence (ie I read it in a forum somewhere) suggests other manufacturers have this "feature" too. Any figure over 1000 (except for an old disk) should be considered high, I believe.
I just found another box here with 4x2TB drives (in 2xRAID1 config) with Load_Cycle_Count values well in excess of 1 million...
The "correct" fix is to use the wdidle3 tool from DOS (Google it) but I also found a Linux version here: http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
.. which looks to work.
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