[mythtv-users] WD Green drives (was "complete system meltdown")

[NickS]

> > I've been using a couple of 2TB WD Green drives on a 2 year old

> > mythbackend+frontend machine without any hard-disk problems as far 
> > as I'm aware.
> >
> > For reference here are my numbers:
> >
> > ~$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep "^193"
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   057   057   000    Old_age   Always
> > -       430024
> 
> FWIW, According to the green drive spec sheet, the duty cycle for
> those drives is 300,000 cycles

Oops! I guess I've been lucky it's held out so long. I've now increased the timers on each drive to 10mins with:
    idle3ctl -s148
but on my next hardware upgrade I'll look at replacing that drive with a new one and using the old one as a third drive for as long as it lasts.
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