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

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll grab the idle3-tools. Is it something that needs to be run at each
> boot or is once enough?
>
>
No, just once is fine. Also note that there are various utility ISOs (like
Ultimate Boot CD) which already have that utility.

Karl
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