> You're welcome. I just feel as bad for you as for everyone else who > has bought these obviously Windoze optimized harddrives. Unfortunately > neither wdidle3 nor an updated firmware is available or functioning on > the latest models in the Green series. At least that's what I've read > from other people having this issue. WD only claims they don't support > Linux and they probably have never heard of FreeBSD.
This discussion made me have a look at my 2tb WD Green disks, one of them is from May 2009, looks pretty reasonable : Device Model: WDC WD20EADS-00R6B0 Serial Number: WD-WCAVY0301430 Firmware Version: 01.00A01 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 5253 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 55 And another is very recent, from December 2009, this does look a bit worrying in comparison: Device Model: WDC WD20EADS-32R6B0 Serial Number: WD-WCAVY1611513 Firmware Version: 01.00A01 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 136 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 5908 The disks are of exact same model and look to be same firmware. Should I be worried that the newer disk has, in 136 hours reached a higher Load Cycle count twice as big as on the disk thats 5253 hours old? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
