On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > I fed a mouse to an intertube seer... could this be what Curt refers too? > > http://www.ngohq.com/news/19805-critical-design-flaw-found-in-wd-caviar-green-hdds.html
I don't know about eight seconds as a specific value, but the last time I put a WD Green drive into a server (and, btw, it is the last time I ever will), it wasn't the drive that got old, so much as listening to the complaints of my users: the first time they hit that particular server after a period of idleness, stuff would take *forever* to load up. Of the order of ten seconds just waiting for the disk to spin up, worse in some cases. (Possibly exacerbated by human beings with low timeouts, who would cancel the request and start a new one - resulting in a backlog of requests once the drive finally got going. But still, it was quite a delay.) ChrisA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAPTjJmqb=9s-nvjfuxgapmcx5glcgb+0tib4bxs2e8zq4d7...@mail.gmail.com