23 Dec
2005
23 Dec
'05
5:49 p.m.
On 12/23/2005 at 11:40 AM Jim Leonard wrote:
Western Digital drives don't fail on me as much as
they "pause for no good
reason". I have WD 600ABs in my RAID and for no
reason they'll just
decide to
lock up for 1-8 seconds on a write (never a read). I've checked SMART and
it's
not errors -- thermal recalibration maybe?
I've seen this too and it seems as if the drives spin down for a moment and
then back up again. I have no idea what causes it.