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

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Wed Aug 28 03:23:36 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:

> On 08/27/2013 03:00 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
> > The Green drives tend to accumulate high LCCs because their idle head
> > park timeout is very short (8 seconds?).
>
> What exactly does that mean? Is that the amount of time since the last
> access that it will spin down?
>
> I've got one of these drives, plus another big one (4TB)  in my backup
> storage server.
>
> --Greg
>

No, I think the spin down is separate. This one is just for head parking.
And by default it will park the heads if not accessed in the last 8
seconds. And then unpark the heads on the next access and increase the load
cycle count by 1.

Karl
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