Aren’t they meant to go in data centers? You wouldn’t want a drive in a data center to spin down. That introduces latency in getting the data off of them.
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TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It depends. They’re simply the most annoying drives out there because Seagate on their wisdom decided to remove half of the SMART data from reports and they won’t let you change the power settings like other drives. Those drives will never spin down, they’ll even report to the system they’re spun down while in fact they’ll be still running at a lower speed. They also make a LOT of noise.
hperrin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That should be a choice of the OS / controller card not of the drive itself. Also what datacenter wants to run drives that don’t report half of the SMART data just because they felt like it?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Data centers replace drives when they fail and that’s about it. They don’t care much about SMART data.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We used to use smart data to predict when to order new drives and on really bad looking days increase our redundancy. Nothing like getting a bad series of drives for PB of data to make you paranoid I guess.
czardestructo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have an Exos x16 and x18 drive and they both spin down fine in Debian using hdparm.
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Care you share your hdparm config then?
czardestructo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s really boring, Debian 12: /dev/disk/by-uuid/8f041da5-6f7a-4ff5-befa-2d3cc61a382c { spindown_time = 241 write_cache = off }
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tried that and doesn’t seem to work. :(
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-S/spindown_time:Values from 1 to 240 specify multiples of 5 seconds, yielding timeouts from 5 seconds to 20 minutes. Values from 241 to 251 specify from 1 to 11 units of 30 minutes, yielding timeouts from 30 minutes to 5.5 hours. A value of 252 signifies a timeout of 21 minutes.
ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I got a set off ebay, Jesus christ they’re loud. I ended up returning them cause I could hear the grinding through my whole house
Lem453@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I have 3 14tb exos drives. I have them in a Roswell 4u hotseap chassis. Running unraid.
It’s nearly inaudible over the very reasonable case fans. No grinding noises. I can hear the heads moving a bit but it’s quite subtle. Not sure why people have such different experiences with these
czardestructo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I noticed when they first spin up on boot they do some sub routine and they’re pretty loud and chatty. First time I heard it I was spooked but it worked fine and I just use it for backup so I just moved on. Once it’s on and in normal operation it’s like any other disk I’ve used over the decades. Nothing as loud as an old scsci disk or a quantum fireball.
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m questioning your auditory acuity :P
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ahaha that’s about what they do.