Tumbleweed running on a Pi400 (aarch64). I had a 3.5 WD 320GB drive connected via USB. I replaced it with a 2.5 Toshiba 500GB similarly connected. When booted but with no activity (downloading paused) the WD would not show a flashing light. But now the Toshiba flashes when the download is paused. I am concerned for its life expectancy. Any ideas?
@ionmich and these drives have external power connected, not just relying on the USB power?
Good question. Started thinking. The WD uses external, the Toshiba power (5v 1a) from the Pi400. The WD on a powered SATA to USB cradle. So I’m going to plug the Toshiba into the cradles and test
@ionmich I always use external power on drives connecting over USB…
Plugging into the cradle made no difference, it flashed. But when I plug it into my desktop (15.5) via direct USB it doesn’t flash. Both machines use 15.5. Makes me more curious.
There used to be an insane bug in Baloo ( the KDE file indexer ) with BTRFS.
Baloo would basically never stop indexing the BTRFS system, no matter what.
Maybe one of your hard drives is in BTRFS and one in EXT4 ?
Both ext4. I just find it easier to understand, and it works. I like the Yankee motto “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
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