NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
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...
Resolution:
The answer to the question that I posed in the title of this thread is "Yes" for the 4TB Red drives (WD40EFRX). This makes them unsuitable for use in my ReadyNAS boxes.
Western Digital support has been excellent -- and they have agreed that my WD40EFRX drives are returnable under warranty -- but they haven't yet acknowledged that their WD40EFRX Idle3 timer setting is wrong and should be changed, so I'm sure that any new WD40EFRX replacements I buy will just have the same problem. Therefore, I'm going to return the WD40EFRX drives and replace them with Seagate ST4000VN000 drives (which I've already been using with no problems).
Maybe WDC will figure this out sometime soon, and start shipping their 4TB Red drives with the Idle3 timer disabled (or set to a much higher value than the current 8 seconds). I hope they do, because I'd like to have more than one NAS drive supplier.
The answer to the question that I posed in the title of this thread is "Yes" for the 4TB Red drives (WD40EFRX). This makes them unsuitable for use in my ReadyNAS boxes.
Western Digital support has been excellent -- and they have agreed that my WD40EFRX drives are returnable under warranty -- but they haven't yet acknowledged that their WD40EFRX Idle3 timer setting is wrong and should be changed, so I'm sure that any new WD40EFRX replacements I buy will just have the same problem. Therefore, I'm going to return the WD40EFRX drives and replace them with Seagate ST4000VN000 drives (which I've already been using with no problems).
Maybe WDC will figure this out sometime soon, and start shipping their 4TB Red drives with the Idle3 timer disabled (or set to a much higher value than the current 8 seconds). I hope they do, because I'd like to have more than one NAS drive supplier.
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
