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WD Red drives park their heads like WD Green drives?
So I checked the SMART stats on my new 4TB Red drive (WD40EFRX) today. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that in only 249 power-on hours it has already experienced 36820 load/unload cycles! Me...
An update:
I received a new 4TB Red drive this weekend and used it to replace a deteriorating 2TB drive in my Pro Pioneer. I didn't think to check the SMART stats until 16 hours into the resync process (the NAS had to do three resyncs total, because it now contains a mix of 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB drives), at which point it was showing 570 load cycles... Which disappointed me, because it seemed to imply that the new drive was parking its heads every 100 seconds or so. That's better than once every 24 seconds like the old drive, but still meant that this one would reach the maximum 600K cycles in less than two years.
But I waited another couple of hours for the resyncs to finish, then checked again... And the load count was still at 570.
And now it's been another three hours, and the load count is still at 570.
I'll check again tomorrow and post another update. If the count is still at 570, I'll be satisfied that this drive is working as it should be, and that the old drive was simply defective.
I received a new 4TB Red drive this weekend and used it to replace a deteriorating 2TB drive in my Pro Pioneer. I didn't think to check the SMART stats until 16 hours into the resync process (the NAS had to do three resyncs total, because it now contains a mix of 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB drives), at which point it was showing 570 load cycles... Which disappointed me, because it seemed to imply that the new drive was parking its heads every 100 seconds or so. That's better than once every 24 seconds like the old drive, but still meant that this one would reach the maximum 600K cycles in less than two years.
But I waited another couple of hours for the resyncs to finish, then checked again... And the load count was still at 570.
And now it's been another three hours, and the load count is still at 570.
I'll check again tomorrow and post another update. If the count is still at 570, I'll be satisfied that this drive is working as it should be, and that the old drive was simply defective.
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