From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 14 08:36:00 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4F7BDA2D2 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:36:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp208.alice.it (smtp208.alice.it [82.57.200.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C665CD4B for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:35:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (62.211.162.64) by smtp208.alice.it (8.6.060.28) (authenticated as acanedi@alice.it) id 57C93ED50201578C for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:35:50 +0200 Received: from guardian.ventu (bane.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.ventu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u8E8Zhmk075612 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:35:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.ventu: Host bane.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.15] claimed to be guardian.ventu Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160913213649.3a3f26b2@archlinux.localdomain> <0d1b8dba-3292-9991-ea7d-f160c25090c8@netfence.it> <20160914051806.297c0c3f@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914062154.7cbea049@archlinux.localdomain> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <44d5e0cd-e675-c789-9ee8-1802ed16017a@netfence.it> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:35:42 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160914062154.7cbea049@archlinux.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.1.2.13 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:36:00 -0000 On 09/14/16 06:21, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: >>> IOW the green WD drives do exactly what is required by the EU >>> Regulation >> >> ??? > > By an EU Regulation all external drives must go to sleep after a while. Can you provide a pointer? Thanks. >> You spread FUD about WD drives. FUD? 4 out of 4 drives gone bad in less than a year? (BTW several other drives in the same conditions are still going on). > Sure, if a green drive is unwanted, nobody should buy a green drive. > However, assuming somebody should have bought one by accident, then > simply let a script access it, before it spins down. If the drives goes > to sleep at around 30 minutes, "touch" the drive every 28 minutes. As I said, I had disabled spin down. bye av.