Hi, > However, I think I will change the drives. I was hoping to try some WD10EADS > ones I have, but after your issues I will look at the RE series or > another make ... Further to what Lamar has already said. I have a pair of these drives running under F14 (originally F13) and I would never buy them again. I originally suffered from the 4k partition boundary issue which once rectified made an enormous difference. I was running several virtual machines and once I started up more than one VM, it took a life time for the VM to boot. I was also seeing the same issue with yum, updates taking a ridiculous amount of time. You might also when to check the head load cycle count with smartctl smartctl -a /dev/sdX | grep Load_Cycle_Count They have stupidly aggressive power saving which as I understand it cause many unnecessary head parks, depending on the workload of your system. For example one of my drives hit over 240,000 cycles in 6 months before I became aware of it. By comparison another 4 year old drive is currently only showing 70,000 cycles. There's a tool from WD which lets you alter how aggressively it parks the heads. Unfortunately it's a vendor specific setting the firmware so you can't use a standard linux util to change it. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
