Very quiet drive

I bought this unit as a spare for two hard disks of the older generation. Since hats already gescheppert fairly in the housing. The new plate is a maximum of a faint, muffled clicking of itself.

I put the disk as a data disk in a Linux box. There are on the Web is evidence that the drive parks the heads when eight seconds there is no activity. This increases each time at the plate the internal counter Load_Cycle_Count. There are windy remedies, but in the firmware of the plate I did not want to intervene. So quickly built a script in kde / Autostart, which accesses every seven seconds on the plate:

#! / Bin / bash

while [true]; do

ls / data> / dev / null
Sleep 7

Done

/ Data is with me the path to the data on the disk. Which you have to adapt naturally. And already the counter does not move up.