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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:17:44 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues
Message-ID:  <20100126191744.00000305@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee01001261045j3b0901cen74469a545e47fb49@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <cf9b1ee01001261045j3b0901cen74469a545e47fb49@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:45:10 +0200
Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> wrote:

> The disks are of exact same model and look to be same firmware. Should
> I be worried that the newer disk has, in 136 hours reached a higher
> Load Cycle count twice as big as on the disk thats 5253 hours old?

There's a similar problem with laptop HDDs and APM settings that cause
a high load_cycle_count too. According to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 and
many blog entries, parking the heads frequently can shorten the HDD
lifetime.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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