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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...
I just bought a brand new WD30EFRX (3TB Red) with a production date of Oct '13 and it appears that it is still affected. I'm racking up 1K+ LCC's every 24 hours.
I don't understand - why would this happen on a drive that's on the HCL, and supposedly specifically for NAS use?
I don't have the luxury of exchanging so I plan on using WDIDLE3 - any opinions on S300 vs /D?
Thanks.
I don't understand - why would this happen on a drive that's on the HCL, and supposedly specifically for NAS use?
I don't have the luxury of exchanging so I plan on using WDIDLE3 - any opinions on S300 vs /D?
Thanks.
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