I have not been here in a while. But I have been reading all the posts with great interest.
Thanks to all those who have found a solution. Thanks for trying several parameters and their effect on the disk temperature.
While parking the heads every 8 minutes or so allows to delay reaching 300 000 LCC in about 5 years, it is quite a large value. Also, with 2 MAC computers triggering a backup every 1 hour each (not synchronized), it helps, because the disk is spinning half of the time anyway…
Also, if you allow me, somewhere in this discussion I did read :
“Remember, to shut down the MBL, pull the power and re-insert”
Well, this is a very bad idea. And a good way to (possibly) loose some or all of your data.
You should either send a “reboot” or “shutdown -h +0” or “halt” command, depending on the effect you want to achieve. This is a safe, clean, way to do it.
Maybe there is even something in the web interface that can just do this. I don’t know, I have deactivated it to free some resources.
