We have the WDC WD15EADS-00P8B0 1.5 TB Caviar Green drives. Unfortunately, these drives have the "fixed" firmware and the 8 second idle timeout cannot be changed. Since we starting replacing these drives in our pool about 6 weeks ago (replacing 1 drive per week), the drives has registered almost 40,000 Load Cycles (head parking cycles). At this rate, they won't last more than a year. :( Neither the wdidle3 nor the wdtler utilities will work with these drives.
The RE2/RE4-GP drives can be configured with a 5 minute idle timeout. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
