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These are the drives I am actually running in my new unraid build. I have another seagate drive in my main build for over a year now and it is still running great. I have seen a lot of posts about updating the firmware to cc35 on these drives. Both of mine actually have cc95. tried looking around the internet...not much info on this yet. Anyone have any thoughts on cc95?

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It should not increase too, the RAW value, much over the course of an hour. Some folks were seeing increases well over 1000 an hour, meaning the head was parking at once every 4 seconds.

 

For a comparison here's how my main drives:

Seagate 2TB LP: 

Start_Stop_Count = 436, Power_On_Hours = 4512.

 

3 WD 2TB EADS:

Start_Stop_count = 1342, Power_On_Hours=13925, Load_Cycle_Count=1318;

Start_Stop_count = 1074, Power_On_Hours=13846, Load_Cycle_Count=1043;

Start_Stop_count = 1098, Power_On_Hours=13933, Load_Cycle_Count=1076

 

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It should not increase too, the RAW value, much over the course of an hour. Some folks were seeing increases well over 1000 an hour, meaning the head was parking at once every 4 seconds.

 

For a comparison here's how my main drives:

Seagate 2TB LP:  

Start_Stop_Count = 436, Power_On_Hours = 4512.

 

3 WD 2TB EADS:

Start_Stop_count = 1342, Power_On_Hours=13925, Load_Cycle_Count=1318;

Start_Stop_count = 1074, Power_On_Hours=13846, Load_Cycle_Count=1043;

Start_Stop_count = 1098, Power_On_Hours=13933, Load_Cycle_Count=1076

 

 

since laast looking at this thread it is only up to like 800 for stop start count... this is normal behavior? geez 1000 in an hour would be a lot. Were you guys seeing this right away or after having the drives for awhile?

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I never experienced any of those issues, be is large increases in start_stop_counts or load_cycle_counts but then again I forced my CC34 drives to CC35 on day one.

 

So your drive in 4 days increased it's Start_Stop_Count by over 700. That's more than my drive has seen in 6 Months! My same drive which is serving as Parity is now at a count of 445 over 4612 hours, so it increased by 9 over the course of 100 hours. I know it's different drive makers and all, but your drive is closing in on my WD EADS drives which have been running for over 19 months.

 

I don't know if it's a real issue for you or not, but might be worth checking out.

 

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I never experienced any of those issues, be is large increases in start_stop_counts or load_cycle_counts but then again I forced my CC34 drives to CC35 on day one.

 

So your drive in 4 days increased it's Start_Stop_Count by over 700. That's more than my drive has seen in 6 Months! My same drive which is serving as Parity is now at a count of 445 over 4612 hours, so it increased by 9 over the course of 100 hours. I know it's different drive makers and all, but your drive is closing in on my WD EADS drives which have been running for over 19 months.

 

I don't know if it's a real issue for you or not, but might be worth checking out.

 

 

hmm ... well I have been doing parity and just rebuilt my drive because I was changing to 4k alignment. Also I Have been adding a lot of data to it. Does that affect it?

 

If I did decide to go to cc35 does that erase data on the drive at all?

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I have seen reports of others flashing their drives to CC35 without losing data. It should be non-destructive. It might be worth looking around the other hard drive support forum websites to see what others have seen or experienced before acting.

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I have two ST2000DL003 with firmware CC32 as well as one ST31500541AS with firmware CC34.  None of these are showing unusual start/stop counts.

 

                                        s/s hrs

ST2000DL003 CC32  23 / 587

ST2000DL003 CC32  20 / 336

ST31500541AS CC34 486 / 5899

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I have two ST2000DL003 with firmware CC32 as well as one ST31500541AS with firmware CC34.  None of these are showing unusual start/stop counts.

 

                                         s/s hrs

ST2000DL003 CC32  23 / 587

ST2000DL003 CC32  20 / 336

ST31500541AS CC34 486 / 5899

 

It was only on the CC95 firmware that it happened.

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I've upgraded 5 drives to CC35 from either CC32 or CC34 with no issue.  I have reported in another thread though that the clicking noise during spin up and spin down seems more pronounced since I upgraded to CC35.  I've since set my spindown timer to 4 hours and I don't hear any clicking during file transfers or when the drives are spinning.

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What is the cause of the clicking anyways? I'm hearing it, though its faint, but it's annoying me.

 

I have a Seagate 2TB but the 64mb version running as a data drive in my unRAID box, running CC32:

 

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST2000DL003-9VT166
Serial Number:    5YD20NGP
Firmware Version: CC32
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes

 

Thanks.

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