From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 10:13:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488D4106566C for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B46B8FC19 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:13:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F42E7211; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:13:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from unknown (client-86-27-40-229.glfd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.27.40.229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:13:54 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:13:57 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Paul Wootton Message-ID: <20101119101357.00001214@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4CE5AC3C.8000402@fletchermoorland.co.uk> References: <4CE52F49.4010602@sentex.net> <218D523D-A5BF-4E37-BC75-2FBF67C1D618@mac.com> <4CE5AC3C.8000402@fletchermoorland.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions , Andy Wodfer Subject: Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:13:56 -0000 On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:44:12 +0000 Paul Wootton wrote: > Here is a copy from smartctl > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000 Old_age > Always - 5958 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age > Always - 885346 > > The drive has less than 250 days online, but is nearly at tripple the > rated load/unload cycle. > While the drive is still working, I have NO faith in it anymore and > am just waiting for it to die. It seems almost necessary to use WD's wdidle3.exe utility to disable the aggressive power management. I'm at 27002 hours and 39405 load cycles so far. More worrying perhaps is that there's already a reallocated sector and a few uncorrectable errors logged. Having said that I got a brand new disk yesterday and found the "Multi_Zone_Error_Rate" was non-zero so I think people should probably stop worrying about the raw value and learn to focus on the Value/Worst/Thesh fields instead. -- Bruce Cran