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MrCyberdude
Apr 15, 2010Tutor
2TB WD20EARS HCL Advanced Format 4k Sectors TLER LCC WDidle3
EDIT: This thread was written before the Readynas group had recognized and addressed the WD Advanced Format HDD's. An issue that remains to this day is the massive LCC(Load Cycle Count) increases due ...
MrCyberdude
Apr 28, 2010Tutor
There are drives on the HCL that you can purchase in Melbourne.
Not at a reasonable price, not when you need 8 x TheSameTypeBrand, Not when its nearly a 400Km return trip.
I did speak to netgear and they confirmed the WD20EARS and Advanced Format with their top level engineer.
From above post
I had trouble pinning down X-RAID2, 6 disks (with dual redundancy), any links you can name?
actually did the copy again when my system wasn't doing other tasks and got
copying a 7.79 GB (8,370,782,376 bytes) file to the NAS took 5:55 secs or ~=22 MB/s
and 1:40 secs from the NAS to the Win7 PC so 77.9MB/sec i.e.~=7790MB/100secs
22.0 MB/s write to NAS
77.9 MB/s read from NAS
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