Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:36:49 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02>
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:48:22 +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: >Experience with Western Digital makes me very afraid of "green" hard >drives. The WD green drives are ok, as long as you don't use KDE, GNOME or a desktop environment that does use gvfs or a similar virtual file system that wakes up the green drive as soon as it spin down. You either need to remove gvfs or similar mechanism or touch the drive before it gets to sleep. Smartd is another culprit that make green drives spin down and up again and again. Be also careful with udisks. Until now I only found one coder that was willing to fix this issue: https://github.com/lxde/libfm/commit/994a1e25ba0c3da80575fc002af17ab02ed5998b The coders of the big desktop environments claim that WD drives are bad and spin down and up again and again, but this is not true. My goes to sleep after around 30 minutes and stays asleep until it gets touched. I also was in contact with WD. Even if you don't use e.g. KDE, but just one time run K3b the issue appears. IOW the green WD drives do exactly what is required by the EU Regulation, just some software is bad programmed. Don't use this software. nOt the drives, the software is bad. Regards, Ralf
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