On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 16:56 +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2014-05-12, Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> This is actually pretty important because all my backup data is stored > >> there. > > > > 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 > > > > Yeps. I wasn't aware of the problem
Because the drives are very silent, we don't hear them. I don't remember, but I guess I noticed it, because the external drive was on the table and the drive's LED stressed me. > until Ralf spoke of it here (and my > drive had over 500,000 Load_Cycle_Count thingamajiggers--"smartctl > /dev/sda -a | grep Load_Cycle"). > > I used the idle3ctl tool and turned the "feature" off completely (but this > ain't no production server, or whatever you people call them). Now that I read it, I remember the name too :D. Assumed the drive is behind an USB controller and there should be no way to open the case, then, when using GNOME, MATE, XFCE, replacing GVFS by a dummy package could help. But it doesn't help always, from time to time some other software wakes up the sleeping drive. -- 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/1399914577.681.25.camel@archlinux