For the first time ever - I received this message from Scanner on a SEAGATE Ironwolf NAS drive that is about a year old:
ST4000VN008-2DR166- 1 warnings
The head of this hard drive has parked 600,001 times. After 600,000 parking cycles the drive may be in danger of developing problems. Drives normally park their head when they are powered down and activate their head when they are powered back up. Excessive head parking can be caused by overzealous power management settings either in the Operating System or in the hard drive's firmware.
This drive (and 3 other identical ones) are part of my Windows Server 2016 file server which really sees very little action on a daily basis. What is the story with this message and why would this drive be "parking" Itself so frequently - considering the server is never powered down (only rebooted one per month following standard maintenance).
I have not had a chance to look into the other 3 drives yet - but this is concerning just the same. Is there a possibility that DrivePool or Scanner are the cause of this message?
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Sonicmojo
For the first time ever - I received this message from Scanner on a SEAGATE Ironwolf NAS drive that is about a year old:
ST4000VN008-2DR166 - 1 warnings
This drive (and 3 other identical ones) are part of my Windows Server 2016 file server which really sees very little action on a daily basis. What is the story with this message and why would this drive be "parking" Itself so frequently - considering the server is never powered down (only rebooted one per month following standard maintenance).
I have not had a chance to look into the other 3 drives yet - but this is concerning just the same. Is there a possibility that DrivePool or Scanner are the cause of this message?
Appreciate any info on this.
Cheers
Sonic.
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