That's what can be found on the web: Overstrained Read/Write heads of WD's Green Power
The Read/Write heads are run on energy saving mode if there hasn't been an activity for about eight seconds. Several Linux distributions access the hard drive in regular patterns - sometimes in a 10 seconds rhythm - and thus unnecessarily use the hard drive. The affected hard drives can be recognized by a high load/unload cycle; via SMART. Some Green Power hard drives are supposed to have exceeded their specified 300,000 cycles in less than a year. There is a new firmware for Western Digital's Green Power hard drives that is supposed to solve problems related to the combination of energy saving mode and certain programs.
Here are the important smart attributes for the drives installed in fb1. The tool i used is "smartmontools" written by Bruce Allen. The first two disks don't have this parameter as they are old(er).
SDA:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 45
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 051 000 Old_age Always - 35686
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 45
SDB:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 39
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 045 045 000 Old_age Always - 40385
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 39
SDC:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 9587
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 19
SDD:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 13
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 9521
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 13
So for fb1 everything is fine but i didn't check fb0 as i'm not allowed to install anything there. |