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intothevoid
Oct 01, 2012Aspirant
[Solved] Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166: Load Cycle Count
Hi, sorry if this has been discussed already, all i could find are topics about upgrading the firmware on these drives. I've got a NV+v2 with 4 3TB ST3000DM001-9YN166 disks in it, firmware CCH4 ...
intothevoid
Jan 28, 2013Aspirant
Hi all,
a quick follow up:
After my last post in this thread, 3 months ago, I decided to try one final thing: I disabled the 'disk spin-down after X minutes of inactivity' power setting. Annnnd: no problems ever since! All disks are fine and have stopped failing.
I waited a while before posting this since the original problem occurred only about once a month, but I think after 3 months we can conclude that this fixes things :-)
a quick follow up:
After my last post in this thread, 3 months ago, I decided to try one final thing: I disabled the 'disk spin-down after X minutes of inactivity' power setting. Annnnd: no problems ever since! All disks are fine and have stopped failing.
I waited a while before posting this since the original problem occurred only about once a month, but I think after 3 months we can conclude that this fixes things :-)
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