Interesting topic: few days ago I was playing with idle3-tools on WD that was clicking due to head parking every 2-3 mins. In 24 hours of work I managed to gain 600 load cycles. Interesting that Micro$oft is not making this kind of problem to HDD. With idle3 I put idle time from 80 (8sec) to 3000 (5 min). Now - no clicking but heating is going up to 42-43degC. Is this temperature degrading HDD...Should I keep it cooler and how?
Also - tried to do the same thing to old PATA drive with 200k load cycles (also WD). Idle3 is obviously not working on PATA. I have return it to living with a lot of effort. Is there any way to reduce numbers of load cycles on PATA drives? Bladan On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Michael <codejod...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > sting wing, > > although there isn't really anything left to add to Bobs reply (which is > good work, as expected); but just for the fun of it, some related ideas. > > If you need to monitor harddrive temperature, then possibly you've already > reason to fear overheating, and you finally would need to lower the > temperature generally, right. > > There are settings in the BIOS as well as in the desktop settings what to > do after so much idle time (or tools like 'sleepd', or you could screw > some hdparm -f -Y command into the right places.) However, that does not > really work since there are too many processes doing continuous small disk > writes, like logs and network activities. Therefore, you should configure > as much things as possible into RAM (see /etc/default/tmpfs) and even link > specific folders there. As a small demonstration, some image viewers > clutter your disk with large amounts of thumbnails in ~/.thumbnails, and > you could make that a symbolic link to a /tmp/thumbnails folder which you > create at desktop launch, via autostart script. (I invented this just now, > not tested.) The thumbs will be lost, after shutdown, but usually most of > them are obsolete anyway. Highly experimental would be /var/log mounted as > tmpfs :) but why not. > > However, if you've got serious overheating, then the real solution is to > get the heat out of the computer. With PCs for example i tend to use > external drives for the busy system partitions. In very modern laptops you > would have an internal flash disk anyway, which probably don't produce much > heat. But a simple thing you can do is to clean the inbuilt fan from heavy > dust and you may even consider to open up some additional slots in the > case, manually, or make the existing one larger (loosing warranty of > course). > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20130406004427.77074...@mirrors.kernel.org > >
