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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/RileyKennels on 2024-01-21 09:38:19+00:00.
I'm using Hard Disk Sentinel for Hard Drive monitoring. It refreshes the disks SMART information every 5 min. However, I noticed that my HDD's heads park (particulary Seagate Exos) every 3 minutes.
Unless I'm mistaken this would mean every 3 minutes my HDD heads park and then are unparked again when the disk's SMART reporting inquiry is made (5 minutes) over and over again causing a quickly increasing head park count.
With modern, especially Enterprise grade hard drives being able to have hundreds of thousands of head park operations in their service life, is this really an isssue?
What is the tradeoff when deciding whether to allow Enterprise HDDs to park at all?
Secondly what are your disk monitoring refresh intervals and what do you use on your system to monitor SMART disk health?