Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:37:59 +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: <20160914113759.7af2759b@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <44d5e0cd-e675-c789-9ee8-1802ed16017a@netfence.it> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> <0d1b8dba-3292-9991-ea7d-f160c25090c8@netfence.it> <20160914051806.297c0c3f@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914062154.7cbea049@archlinux.localdomain> <44d5e0cd-e675-c789-9ee8-1802ed16017a@netfence.it>
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:35:42 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >Can you provide a pointer? >Thanks. Yes, get in contact with WD support, they could explain you the whole situation. >As I said, I had disabled spin down. Can you provide a pointer? Thanks, since it's very unlikely, most likely is that you just increased the time, before the drive goes to sleep, but you still run gvfs and/or KDE apps such as K3b and or smartd and/or you are using udisks or similar to mounted instead of mounting by CLI or e.g. using rodent and/or you used libfm, before the bug was fixed, https://github.com/lxde/libfm/commit/994a1e25ba0c3da80575fc002af17ab02ed5998b etc.. I don't want to discuss this anymore. The above coder was the only one who was willing to fix the bug for his software, all other developers spread FUD as yours. Again, get in contact with WD support. If you still should own a WD green drive, use smartctl to check the spin down and up cycles and banish all the above mentioned and similar apps. If something still was wrong with old WD green drives, then at least they are not broken anymore since around 4 years, since my WD green drive works around 4 years without issues, but as already pointed out, if it goes to sleep, no software wakes up the drive without a reason, this means I don't have gvfs installed, I don't launch K3b, I mount by CLI, I don't run smartd, I check the cycles from time to time and if the drive should start spinning again, I check what software does cause this issue and file a back against this software, so for libfm, used by lxpanel it was fixed. Apart from this, if a green drive is unwanted, then don't use one. The internal drives of my tower PC aren't WD green drives, they are SAMSUNG SpinPoints.
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