Personal computing discussed
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just brew it! wrote:Since the old file server isn't emitting any smoke or bad noises, I'll leave it powered on for a while to see if it eventually manages to time out whatever hard drive error is giving it grief, and limp onto the network. If the error isn't in some critical file on the boot drive it should eventually put in an appearance.
Yan wrote:Seagate 340014A. 101635 hours. That's on more or less constantly for over 11 years, which sounds right.
Waco wrote:Nice! My limited experience with Enterprise drives was disappointing, but the sample size was too small to say much.I retired it a year ago, but it ran 24/7 from 1994 until 2016.
HERETIC wrote:Basic math-9 hours week for say 26 weeks by 5 years=1170 hours.
Crystal disc gives usage at 22 hours.
Ifalna wrote:WD-Green 2TB: 31K hours / 500K load/unload (yuck)
meerkt wrote:Ifalna wrote:WD-Green 2TB: 31K hours / 500K load/unload (yuck)
That load/unload seems fishy. Maybe the raw value means something else, or needs interpretation. Or maybe it's not what I expect "load/unload" to mean.
Waco wrote:I have a Bigfoot XT that's well over 130K hours.
just brew it! wrote:meerkt wrote:Ifalna wrote:WD-Green 2TB: 31K hours / 500K load/unload (yuck)
That load/unload seems fishy. Maybe the raw value means something else, or needs interpretation. Or maybe it's not what I expect "load/unload" to mean.
It's a known issue with some of the WD Green models. As a power saving measure, the head unload timeout is set ridiculously low (like 8 seconds IIRC). If your system tends to touch the drive frequently (but not frequently enough to prevent the unload timeout from kicking in) you end up with a ridiculous number of head load/unload cycles.
If your system "touches" the affected drive once a minute you'll end up with 500K load/unload cycles in about a year.
meerkt wrote:Any thoughts on what's the correlation, if any, between hours and failure?
Yan wrote:Waco wrote:I have a Bigfoot XT that's well over 130K hours.
You win. Two internets for you.
captaintrav wrote:My two 500gb WD blues are at 48k and 62k hours, two 1gb greens at 46k and 34k, two 2gb greens at only around 4k hours. The new greens have load/unload cycles under 100 so far, I did the wdidle fix right away.
pikaporeon wrote:Seagate 320 GB from two rigs ago - 72 958 hours
meerkt wrote:Current or historic.
I think the highest I currently have is 22K, then a few 20Ks. Not sure about historic ones.