I think I answered your question a few postings up about the RMA. I doubt the 8 second timer will cause video streaming issues, the drives only park the heads and it takes only a fraction of a second to reload the heads and lets say you can buffer 10 seconds of video data, your application should continue to buffer data when it needs it well before it must go out over your Ethernet cable. If your video hangs randomly, it's probably not your drives unless you have them sleeping.My only issue is, can I RMA these drives now? It is a question I keep asking that nobody can seem to answer. But this might be why video hangs for a second or two at random.
WD will not tell you to pack sand. You used their utility to adjust the drives and several of us have had correspondence with WD to get those utilities.
As for your streaming video issue, I'd place a posting for the streaming media service you are using, Plex or MiniDLNA. When you post a question of that nature, include all of your hardware makeup because it's going to be a hardware issue. Also include the streaming player device and if it's wired or wireless. Cover it from End to End and your help will be better.
I run OpenElec on a Raspberry Pi, works very well for streaming video and a bit cheaper than an i3. Also ensure you are running FreeNAS 9.2.1.3 or later as Samba had a significant fix in this version.
So, I let my drive run for some time now an monitored the values.
ATM I have 548 Power On Hours and 8378 Load Cycle Count which means one Load Cycle about every 4 minutes. I guess I should run the tools on my drive?
So, I let my drive run for some time now an monitored the values.
ATM I have 548 Power On Hours and 8378 Load Cycle Count which means one Load Cycle about every 4 minutes. I guess I should run the tools on my drive?
Not necessarily.. calculate the load cycle count at 3 years, 4 years, and even 5 years if you think you'll keep the drive that long. You going to go over the 350k expected lifespan? If so, then I would.
Gotta think big picture in terms of what you are trying to achieve and how bad things are.
Other than a miniscule amount of additional (and I think it's very questionable) power used, what is the downside of disabling it?
Disk: /dev/ada0 Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N09xxxxx Firmware Version: 80.00A80 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 14 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1053 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 7 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 177 177 000 Old_age Always - 71416 ---------- Disk: /dev/ada1 Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N09xxxxx Firmware Version: 80.00A80 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 15 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1053 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 177 177 000 Old_age Always - 71701 ---------- Disk: /dev/ada2 Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N08xxxxx Firmware Version: 80.00A80 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 14 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1053 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 7 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 177 177 000 Old_age Always - 71644 ---------- Disk: /dev/ada3 Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N09xxxxx Firmware Version: 80.00A80 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 15 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1053 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 176 176 000 Old_age Always - 72052 ---------- Disk: /dev/ada4 Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N10xxxxx Firmware Version: 80.00A80 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 15 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1053 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 177 177 000 Old_age Always - 71950 ---------- Disk: /dev/ada5 Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N08xxxxx Firmware Version: 80.00A80 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 15 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1053 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 177 177 000 Old_age Always - 71443
Not to sound condescending or anything. Did you swap power and sata with a working drive?