[Bug 969165] Re: hdparm: excessive Load_Cycle_Count with some WD "Intelli-Park" HDDs
jasmineaura
969165 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Sep 17 19:58:08 UTC 2012
Apparently there are many other affected Scorpio Blue drives out there,
besides mine and Lukáš Chmela (lukaschmela) above, so it's definitely
not only Scorpio Greens StupiPark'in.
Examples:
Scorpio Blue WDC WD5000BEVT-22A0RT0 (FW 01.01A01),
Dell laptop (Ubuntu 10.04) vs. Acer Netbook (Ubuntu 11.04)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2048880 (2012-09)
INSPIRON 15R & Toshiba (Ubuntu 11.10/12.04) vs. Acer Netbook
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1956333 (2012-04)
Scorpio Blue WD10JPVT , Ubuntu12.04 & Win7 err/probs prior to wdidle3 fix
Compaq Presario F739WM w/ NV MCP51,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1971291 (2012-05)
Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 , Ubuntu 11.04
Lenovo Ideapad B560
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1849893 (2011-09)
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Title:
hdparm: excessive Load_Cycle_Count with some WD "Intelli-Park" HDDs
Status in “hdparm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
On a Dell E5420 I noticed the HDD is constantly spinning up/down. The
drive is a WDC2500BEVT-7 which is apparently a "green" WD HDD which
has firmware magic called "Intelli-Park" to park the HDD to save
power.. Apparently the default settings it parks the heads after 8
seconds of inactivity and with a lifetime of ~1,000,000
Load_Cycle_Counts we may see these drives fail sooner than expected.
I was easily able to get the HDD to bump the Load_Cycle_Count by at
least ~4 in 60 seconds, which equates to ~700,000 in a year assuming
we use the HDD for 8 hours a day. The lifetime is ~1,000,000
Load_Cycle_Counts, so this is a bit alarming to say the least. This
happens even with hdparm -B 128 /dev/sda; I was under the impression
that values > 127 *should* not permit spin down, but looks like this
drive needs -B 255 for stop this. So I think we have a green drive
that tries too hard and will end up shortening its life.
There is some discussion of this here:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51401
And some explanation from WD about the issue here:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5357
This may affect the following models:
WD20EADS, WD20EARS, WD15EADS, WD15EARS, WD10EADS, WD10EARS,
WD8000AARS, WD7500AADS, WD7500AARS, WD6400AADS, WD6400AARS,
WD5000AADS, WD5000AARS
Can we quirk on these drives to select a more appropriate default
hdparm setting?
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