[Tfug] And another one down

[Timothy D. Lenz]

 From what I understand, yes. It's the powerup/down that stresses the 
drive the most.

I was starting to poke around to see what I will have to deal with to 
change this drive and found a file that has the drive PN's:

dvice.map
(fd0)	/dev/fd0
(hd0)	/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500413AS_Z3T69GCE
(hd1)	/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_5VMJ49P1
(hd2)	/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500320AS_9QM35MY5
(hd3)	/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500820AS_9QM6V6JF


On 9/8/2013 8:19 PM, Bender wrote:
> Does keeping a drive running make it live longer?
>
>
>> I don't use power down on drives because of the stress it adds. A
>> drive left on 24/7 gets less wear then one shutdown every night.
>>
>> On 9/8/2013 2:35 PM, Bexley Hall wrote:
>>> Hi Timothy,
>>>
>>> On 9/8/2013 1:16 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>>>> I've heard others say the 500Gb drive was a bad drive.
>>>
>>> Then take that into consideration when shopping for a replacement!  :>
>>> Vote with your wallet!  (I'd also send them a complaint letter; you
>>> might get something for your "trouble"/effort...)
>>>
>>>> And todays message:
>>>>
>>>> This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>>>>
>>>>     host name: x64VDR
>>>>    DNS domain: tdl
>>>>    NIS domain: (none)
>>>>
>>>> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>>>>
>>>> Device: /dev/sdc, 49 Offline uncorrectable sectors
>>>>
>>>> 49 sectors down. And with the last drive failure, the power supply was
>>>> also replaced.
>>>
>>> Note that lots of things affect the wear-and-tear on a drive in
>>> a system.  Temperature, power flucutations, access patterns, etc.
>>>
>>> E.g., I "discovered" that one of the reasons for laptop drives
>>> failing in 24/7 use was the constant spinning up and down that
>>> they were experiencing.  I.e., when used *as* a laptop, a drive's
>>> activity mirrors the user's activities.  If the user "goes away"
>>> for a long period of time (e.g., overnight!), the drive can
>>> spin down and *stay* spun down.
>>>
>>> OTOH, in continuous service, the usage patterns of "the system"
>>> can conspire with the (naive) timers that determine when the
>>> drive can/should spin down.  Periodic tasks can then aggravate
>>> this by forcing a drive that "just" spun down to spin back up
>>> again.  Like clockwork.  Every day.
>>>
>>> [My latest "laptop drive" in that 24/7/365 situation has not
>>> failed.  I suspect part of that is because I no longer let the
>>> drive "spin down" -- it's not a laptop concerned with prolonging
>>> battery life and the power saved (from the ACmains) isn't worth
>>> the effort to replace a failed drive "often".]
>>>
>>> Of course, only you can evaluate the environment in which your
>>> drives are operating!  :>
>>>
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