ngandrass
Explorer
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2019
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- 68
Here it the warning... Pay attention to your Load_Cycle_Count and Start_Stop_Count on your hard drive. [...] My personal opinion (just my opinion) is if the head load count is more than 12 in 24 hours then that is too high, and if the motor start count increases more than 5 in 24 hours, that too is too high.
So if you look at these values and you feel they are climbing faster than you would like, examine the settings you have set in the script because it appears that the script is well written and does what it claims, but you have to be smart enough to know how to setup the script to not cause more damage than the benefits gained.
I can only strongly second this! This script is clearly targeted at small home systems that are idle most of the time. Please don't apply this technique in a mid to large scale deployment.
Thanks @joeschmuck for emphasizing this again!
For my part: I spin down the drives of my "colder" storage array containing data such as backups (only updated once nightly).