On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Garrett Moore wrote: > The drives being discussed in my related thread (regarding poor > performance) are all WD Green drives. I have used wdidle3 to set all > of my drive timeouts to 5 minutes. I'll see what sort of difference > this makes for performance. > > Even if it makes no difference to performance, thank you for pointing > it out -- my drives have less than 2,000 hours on them and were all > over 90,000 load cycles due to this moronic factory setting. Since > changing the timeout, they haven't parked (which is what I would > expect).
Mine had 65k or so, except one which only had 66.. Very odd! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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