From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 14:20:22 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743C9BDB927 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:20:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp205.alice.it (smtp205.alice.it [82.57.200.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8C2369 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:20:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (62.211.162.64) by smtp205.alice.it (8.6.060.28) (authenticated as acanedi@alice.it) id 57D7C4E80083A0CD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:20:11 +0200 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u8FEK8pj090073 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:20:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.ventu: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" 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> <20160914113759.7af2759b@archlinux.localdomain> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:20:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160914113759.7af2759b@archlinux.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:20:22 -0000 On 09/14/16 11:37, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > 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. I think we have a misunderstaning here: I'd be happy to see a pointer to the EU regulation you mention. TIA >> As I said, I had disabled spin down. > > Can you provide a pointer? > http://serverfault.com/questions/242891/disable-caviar-green-drives-spinning-down#338875 > 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.. This was on a server: not even X11. > I don't want to discuss this anymore. Fine. > Apart from this, if a green drive is unwanted, then don't use one. That's the whole point: I was just suggesting Thomas to avoid them; he can decide. bye av.