Journal nizo's Journal: Is your disk slow? 4
The new sata disks we got are running much slower than the older smaller drives we are currently using for backups. After some digging, it looks like it could be related to an acoustic management feature in new drives; you can run them slower to make them less noisy. Since I want them to be fast and make as much noise as possible, I'm going to tweak around (once I have the latest hdparm software; stupid RedHat) and see if that fixes the problem.
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You said DISK...
TOTALLY Freudian mis-hearing there... :^b
I haven't run into this (yet?), but I've noticed the noisy drive phenomena come up a time or two during really huge operations, which always gets my attention because noise = wear and tear.
I don't know if it's a related issue, but I always make it a point to get drives with the biggest built-in cache I can get (and usually found that shopping around gets this for about the same price anyway!).
On semi-related noise fronts, I recently installed (read: a
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But there's nothing like that studly feeling that comes from making a part _behave_ by force
When I was much younger, I was installing a drive fan on an old compaq case that used drive tray-like rails to hold the drives. After sawing on one side for a while in order to cut a groove for the fan to fit over the rails, I got the bright idea of heating up a knife and slicing through the plastic like a hot knife through plastic.
My mother was not amused by the plastic stuck to her favorite carving knife.
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Bwaaahaahaa-- that's hilarious!
And it reminds me of that one time I did similarly, using heated up nails to poke holes in some plastic containers, but didn't note that the nail too cool to melt plastic was plenty hot enough to burn an otherwise beautiful wooden table, and even get it smoking...
Ah, the discoveries of youth.
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Using smartmontools (smartctl) you can change the acoustic management. Or was that hdparm. It's one or the other, I looked deeply in this stuff because I had problems with drives that were brand new but seemed to fail.... I'd need to boot up that machine. If you want I'll look it up.