ZFS on USB / Sound on alienware m11x
Craig Whipp
crwhipp at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 18:19:23 UTC 2011
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:58:28 +0000, Gautham Ganapathy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying out FreeBSD on ZFS using the PC-BSD 8.2 installer. I have
> it installed on a Western Digital USB HDD connected to an Alienware
> m11x laptop. It seems to work well except that once in a while, any
> application performing a write freezes for a few seconds (around 15
> or
> so) and looking at top shows their states to be in zio. Is this
> because it was installed on a USB drive?
>
I've experienced the same behavior on my external USB WD drive. I
found that many of the Western Digital external drives will spin-down
after some period of time. The wait you're experiencing is probably
the time it takes to spin-up. WD has a utility to disable the
spin-down feature. It's windows only, however.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=304&sid=17&lang=en
- Craig
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