Tag: disk

5.25″ Drive bay for 3.5″ slot

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By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on September 23, 2017, at 22:09 | Comments closed

Broken disk went undetected, but did corrupt data

I had a disk in one of my servers that was starting to give ATA errors in the syslog. Contrary to what you might think, ATA errors are fairly common, so I didn't immediately sound the alarm. However, this disk turned out to be corrupting data. During upgrading Debian 6 to 7, the file system became read-only. Rebooting gave me a recovery shell and e2fsck gave me millions of questions. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on September 06, 2013, at 15:09 | Comments closed

Seek time benchmark for linux

This site provided a nice short c program to measure seek times. I would attach the file in case that site goes down, but this blog still has upload errors...

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By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on December 03, 2010, at 18:12 | 2 comments

Dropping all Linux disk cache

sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

source.

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By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on October 02, 2010, at 18:10 | Comments closed

Disabling Intellipark on the WD15EARS

I just got two Western Digital 1.5TB WD15EARS disks. This drive has a feature called intellipark, which parks the head after the disk is not used for a while. This is supposedly a power saving feature. But, as someone explains, it can also severely decrease the lifetime of your drive. Read More »
By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on May 13, 2010, at 14:05 | 1 comment