March 21, 201511 yr Hello, I just found the SMART page under unMenu that shows all the SMART info on one page (thank you to the person who posted about this in another thread). Several of my drives have a lot of load_cycle_count (33256, 21449, 29730, as some examples). I read about a utility that can adjust this aspect of the drive but not sure what it is and how it is done under linux. Should I be worried and is it neccessary? Thx.
March 21, 201511 yr You can adjust the head parking time with WDIDLE => just Google it for the download and instructions on how to use it. HOWEVER ... depending on the age of the drives, those numbers may not be bad. A typical WD drive is spec'd for 300,000 or more load cycles. So even your worst drive has only about 10% of those. If this drive is a couple years old, that's not an issue at all. If they're new drives with those kind of counts, then you may indeed want to adjust the WDIDLE time.
March 21, 201511 yr MyMain's SMART view highlights these way before they get anywhere near the danger levels, so you can take action sooner rather than later.
March 21, 201511 yr Author You can adjust the head parking time with WDIDLE => just Google it for the download and instructions on how to use it. HOWEVER ... depending on the age of the drives, those numbers may not be bad. A typical WD drive is spec'd for 300,000 or more load cycles. So even your worst drive has only about 10% of those. If this drive is a couple years old, that's not an issue at all. If they're new drives with those kind of counts, then you may indeed want to adjust the WDIDLE time. Yes...these are older drives, but now I have found the unMenu SMART view I can keep an eye on them. Thx
March 21, 201511 yr Author MyMain's SMART view highlights these way before they get anywhere near the danger levels, so you can take action sooner rather than later. Actually, that's why I asked the question. UnMenu has highlighted them. Strange that some of my oldest drives don't have many of these, but some of the newer ones do. I only have two drives that have less than 10000 hours.
March 21, 201511 yr Drive settings controls how long it takes before the heads park. WD went whacky with their drives 5 or so years ago that caused the LCCs to skyrocket. The WDIDLE tool mentioned tunes them way down. You can't stop LCCs from increasing but can greatly reduce the increases.
March 21, 201511 yr Yes...these are older drives ... In which case your numbers are fine. But it's certainly a good idea to pay attention to the SMART parameters so you'll notice if something starts to change for the worse.
March 21, 201511 yr Author Yes...these are older drives ... In which case your numbers are fine. But it's certainly a good idea to pay attention to the SMART parameters so you'll notice if something starts to change for the worse. Will do. Thx for the help.
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