Too aggressive power management in Western Digital GreenPower drives
Posted in Review on April 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Recently introduced Western Digital GreenPower hard drives seem to be suffering from overly aggressive head parking under some workloads. By default, idle timer before heads are unloaded is set to eight seconds, so with a hypothetical workload where disk is accessed every nine seconds it would do several hundreds of unload cycles per hour. Since [...]