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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...
Bad news: After 44 hours, the Load Cycle Count on the new Red drive is up to 2054. Checking the Idle3 timer on this new drive and the old Red drive (which now has 72482 load cycles after 445 power-on hours) shows that it is set to 0x50 (8 seconds) on each, the same as a Green drive.
So I guess my choices are:
Sigh.
So I guess my choices are:
- Just live with it, and hope I can RMA each Red drive (and its replacement, and that one's replacement, etc.) when it gets near 600K load cycles.
- Disable each drive's Idle3 timer using idle3ctl, although this will apparently void the warranty.
- Send these crappy drives back and buy more Seagate ST4000VN000s instead.
Sigh.
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