System not running right

Brandon Vincent Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu
Tue Sep 22 18:17:43 UTC 2015


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:13 AM,  <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> I forgot to mention, since you installed smartctl and Ubuntu's policy is
> to autostart everything, you need to disable smartd, otherwise smartd
> will damage your green drive. Assumed you should use a green drive.

smartd is not the problem, the engineers at WD are.

If you use a WD green, just use idle3-tools to disable to raise the sleep timer.

Brandon Vincent




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