Just got my black friday WD Easystore opened. (One month late because I've been lazy.)
Shuck it and start using it, I noticed that there's random noise from the drive when reading / writing. Sounds to me like the head loses the track and tries to relocate itself. Installed Debian on to this drive, and did some random apt-get install, I heard a few times the "head reset" noise during the reading / writing, and apt lags for a fraction of a second every time I hear it.
So I thought, screw it, let me scan this drive.
Timeout threshold was set to 300ms per cylinder since normally it's 10-40ms. Let it run over night (20 hours till now) and today I see a whooping 800+ timed out cylinders all over the disk by now, and is still increasing.
0<=<=60ms 1000000+
60<=<=200ms 4500+
200<=<=300ms 0
300ms+ (Timeout) 850+
For those who have the same drive, do you observe similar issues? Do you hear random and frequent "head reset" when reading / writing? I want to make sure it's a problematic drive before asking for an exchange.
Note that I have un-mount partitions before doing disk scans, so should not be interfered by someone else on the computer.
Shuck it and start using it, I noticed that there's random noise from the drive when reading / writing. Sounds to me like the head loses the track and tries to relocate itself. Installed Debian on to this drive, and did some random apt-get install, I heard a few times the "head reset" noise during the reading / writing, and apt lags for a fraction of a second every time I hear it.
So I thought, screw it, let me scan this drive.
Timeout threshold was set to 300ms per cylinder since normally it's 10-40ms. Let it run over night (20 hours till now) and today I see a whooping 800+ timed out cylinders all over the disk by now, and is still increasing.
0<=<=60ms 1000000+
60<=<=200ms 4500+
200<=<=300ms 0
300ms+ (Timeout) 850+
For those who have the same drive, do you observe similar issues? Do you hear random and frequent "head reset" when reading / writing? I want to make sure it's a problematic drive before asking for an exchange.
Note that I have un-mount partitions before doing disk scans, so should not be interfered by someone else on the computer.