On 13 May, 2010 - Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk sent me these 2,9K bytes: > ----- "Brian" <broco...@vt.edu> skrev: > > > (1) They seem to have a firmware setting (that may not be modified > > depending on revision) that has to do with the drive "parking" the > > drive after 8 seconds of inactivity to save power. These drives are > > rated for a certain number of park/unpark operations -- I think > > 300,000. Using these drives in a NAS results in a lot of > > park/unpark. > > 8 seconds? is it really that low?
Yes. My disk went through 180k in like 2-3 months.. Then I told smartd to poll the disk every 5 seconds to prevent it from falling asleep. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
