[mythtv-users] Recording drive disappeared...fine on reboot

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED
> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age
> Always       -       1007688
>

Your load cycle count is very high and can lead to failure. Wikipedia says
for 2.5" laptop drives the lifetime LCC is 300,000 to 600,000 (not sure
about 3.5" desktop drives). You're at almost twice that, so you may want to
consider a replacement drive before it fails. The Green drives tend to
accumulate high LCCs because their idle head park timeout is very short (8
seconds?). For WD Green drive use in a Linux application it is normally
recommended to us the Western Digital utility WDIDLE3 (or idle3-tools?) to
change that timeout to 300 seconds or so, or disable it altogether.

Karl
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