Symptom: Attribute 193
WD drives are designed to reduce power consumption, in part by positioning the heads into a park position (unloading the heads) and turning off unnecessary electronics, resulting in substantial power savings. WD defines this mode as Idle 3. Some utilities, OS’s, and applications, such as some implementations of Linux, for example, are not optimized for low power storage devices and can cause our drives to wake up at a higher rate
so the drive will park the head every 8 seconds and the OS pull it back to active state, causing the heads to dance around continuously? So Debian is not optimized for green solutin ?! hmmm . Unloading the heads while there is no hard drive activity *must* be a good thing. Implementation doesnt seem to be quite SMART though:stuck_out_tongue:
