[Tfug] new disk cycles over & over

[Bowie J. Poag]

The problem may not be with your drive, but rather the power savings 
settings on your PC. Check the BIOS/EFI on your motherboard, and turn 
off any/all hippy options to save power. If that fixes the problem, turn 
the options back on, one by one, until you find the culprit.

If that process doesn't yield any results, boot off a live CD into 
memtest or something, to see what it sounds like independent of what 
hippy options the OS is trying to apply to the drive.

If I wanted to "save the planet", there are other places i'd rather do 
it than my computer. If you run your computer like a hippy runs his 
toilet (if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down) you 
can expect similarly-smelling results. "going through alot of shit", namely.

Cheers,
Bowie


Steve Franks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone had a brand-new disk appear to run fine (dump/restored the old
> os onto it), but I hear it making the "spin down" noise every 30
> seconds or so.  Smartctl says it's fine, but I'm prone to return
> it....
>
> Anyone suspect an incompatibility of some kind?  I went thru @#%
> figuring out my first sata3 controller couldn't handle sata3 drives a
> couple years ago...but this controller has had sata3 disks on it
> already...
>
> Steve
>
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