New hard drive problem - GoFlex

[sweetthdevil]

Thank you for your reply.

I booted the goflex with the usb key and the failed hard drive without issues. It shows up straight away. It has bad sectors.

How do you disable automatic heads?

[sweetthdevil]

Update:

Got sick of it, so I rang the customer support and they agree to refund the item once they received it back..

So now I am shopping for a new one, any advice to make sure I get one that work with the goflex? Looking for 2tb.

[WarheadsSE]

I use WD Red's

[moonman]

I had 2 seagates die in this enclosure. Don't know if it was because they overheated or just bad drives, but I went for WD Green because it is a lower rpm drive and doesn't get as hot. Still going strong after 2 years being on and used 24/7.

You can disable head parking with hdparm:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '-J Get/set the Western Digital (WD) Green Drive's "idle3" timeout
value. This timeout controls how often the drive parks its
heads and enters a low power consumption state. The factory
default is eight (8) seconds, which is a very poor choice for
use with Linux. Leaving it at the default will result in
hundreds of thousands of head load/unload cycles in a very
short period of time. The drive mechanism is only rated for
300,000 to 1,000,000 cycles, so leaving it at the default
could result in premature failure, not to mention the
performance impact of the drive often having to wake-up before
doing routine I/O.

WD supply a WDIDLE3.EXE DOS utility for tweaking this setting,
and you should use that program instead of hdparm if at all
possible. The reverse-engineered implementation in hdparm is
not as complete as the original official program, even though
it does seem to work on at a least a few drives. A full power
cycle is required for any change in setting to take effect,
regardless of which program is used to tweak things.

A setting of 30 seconds is recommended for Linux use.
Permitted values are from 8 to 12 seconds, and from 30 to 300
seconds in 30-second increments. Specify a value of zero (0)
to disable the WD idle3 timer completely (NOT RECOMMENDED!).')

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'hdparm -J /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
wdidle3 = disabled
')

[sweetthdevil]

Thank you for your replies and advices. Will order a new one once I am back from holiday.

One last question, I do not leave the gfh on all the time, it's primary function is to download media using pyload and to stream those and also to be a back up for files.

So the question there is that I always turn the power off, do you guys power the system off first I.e. systems to power off?

[moonman]

You mean poweroff command? Yes, you need to use that before you swith the device off if that's what you meant.

[sweetthdevil]

Thanks, yes that's what I meant but typing the reply on the phone and the auto-correct kicks in