Tutorial[ Seagate Disks ]: Optimize Life Span/Power Managment

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Humm, Hold on a bit... I will check Documentation..
There are a Feature to turn changes persistent, it works for only a subset of things, maybe I forgot that..
I will look into it, and you can try it then..
What a moment  ..



EDIT: 
For what I saw you already have:
'SATA Software Settings Preservation [Enabled]'

But I detected that you have some things that I don't, and I have another ones that you don't.. 

Code:

root@helios4:~# openSeaChest_Basics --deviceInfo --device /dev/sda -v 1 ========================================================================================== openSeaChest_Basics - openSeaChest drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved openSeaChest_Basics Version: 2.8.0-1_19_0 ARM Build Date: Feb  3 2019 Today: Sun Jun 16 19:47:51 2019 ========================================================================================== /dev/sg0 - ST4000VN008-XXXXXX - XXXXXXXX - ATA Model Number: ST4000VN008-XXXXXX Serial Number: XXXXXXXX Firmware Revision: SC60 World Wide Name: xyzw Drive Capacity (TB/TiB): 4.00/3.64 Native Drive Capacity (TB/TiB): 4.00/3.64 Temperature Data: Current Temperature (C): 26 Highest Temperature (C): 39 Lowest Temperature (C): 0 Power On Time:  134 days 13 hours 57 minutes Power On Hours: 3229.95 MaxLBA: 7814037167 Native MaxLBA: 7814037167 Logical Sector Size (B): 512 Physical Sector Size (B): 4096 Sector Alignment: 0 Rotation Rate (RPM): 5980 Form Factor (inch): 3.5 Last DST information: DST has never been run Long Drive Self Test Time:  10 hours 13 minutes Interface speed: Max Speed (Gb/s): 6.0 Negotiated Speed (Gb/s): 6.0 Annualized Workload Rate (TB/yr): 66.98 Total Bytes Read (TB): 20.15 Total Bytes Written (TB): 4.55 Encryption Support: Not Supported Cache Size (MiB): 64.00 Read Look-Ahead: Enabled Write Cache: Enabled Low Current Spinup: Enabled SMART Status: Good ATA Security Information: Supported Firmware Download Support: Full, Segmented, Deferred, DMA Specifications Supported: ACS-3 ACS-2 ATA8-ACS ATA/ATAPI-7 ATA/ATAPI-6 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-4 SATA 3.1 SATA 3.0 SATA 2.6 SATA 2.5 SATA II: Extensions SATA 1.0a ATA8-AST Features Supported: Sanitize SATA NCQ SATA Rebuild Assist SATA Software Settings Preservation [Enabled] SATA Device Initiated Power Management HPA Power Management Security SMART [Enabled] DCO 48bit Address PUIS [Enabled] APM [Enabled] GPL Streaming SMART Self-Test SMART Error Logging Write-Read-Verify Sense Data Reporting [Enabled] SCT Write Same SCT Error Recovery Control SCT Feature Control SCT Data Tables Host Logging Seagate In Drive Diagnostics (IDD)

With a power on time of:
' Power On Time:  134 days 13 hours 57 minutes'

I have:

Code:

# for blockid in {a..d};do smartctl --attributes /dev/sd${blockid}|grep -E "^ 12|^193"; done 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       4 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1898 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       4 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1874 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       4 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1852

My Load/Unload numbers are like new ( ~ 1800 cycles.. ) 


If you look into my current temperature:
' Current Temperature (C): 26'

You will notice that its **a lot lower** than in your disks, ( your luck is that you own Seagate disks...they support higher temps than others.. maxout at 70C, for the case.. )
If I recall it correctly your higher temp are around 50C, that starts to be uncomfortable high..

Mines maxout at around ~30C ..

I Remember of one thing..
Try to set values with the ISCSI handler instead:
Identify the handler:

Code:

openSeaChest_Basics --scan --scanFlags sgtosd --device /dev/sda ========================================================================================== openSeaChest_Basics - openSeaChest drive utilities - NVMe Enabled Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved openSeaChest_Basics Version: 2.8.0-1_19_0 ARM Build Date: Feb  3 2019 Today: Sun Jun 16 20:28:29 2019 ========================================================================================== Vendor   Handle       Model Number            Serial Number          FwRev     ATA      sg0<->sda    ST4000VN008-XXXXXX      XXXXXXXX               SC60       ATA      sg1<->sdb    ST4000VN008-XXXXXX      XXXXXXXX               SC60       ATA      sg2<->sdc    ST4000VN008-XXXXXX      XXXXXXXX               SC60

And then instead of using '/dev/sda' use '/dev/sg0'( probably this will not work, because even using '/dev/sda' Seagate uses underneath the SCSI protocol over ATA.. its only a shot.. ).



Your problem, probably has to do with the fact that, your Sata Adapter, doesn't Acknowledge the power cycle you do when rebooting the Operating system..
Try configuring , then shutting down, remove the disk, wait a bit insert it again, and then boot and check..

If that doesn't work, you probably need a native Sata port around..