[mythtvnz] HDD Load Cycle Count ticking over too fast

[Hadley Rich]

On 25/06/12 22:02, David Moore wrote:
> Any ideas about whether it's the file system (JFS vs EXT4) or OS setting
> or BIOS or HDD firmware that's causing the problem? I can't grasp why
> the disk should spin down, park, then spin up again when it's idle. I'm
> 99% sure there should be no activity on the drive unless myth is
> recording or playing.

There's loads of stuff around about the WD Green drives doing this;

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wd+green+load+cycle+linux&kl=nz-en

I've got a couple of disks with >200k LCC currently.

hads
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