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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...
coreyinoz wrote: 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.
That's interesting. Others have reported that the 3TB WD30EFRX drives does not have this problem, and that only the 4TB WD40EFRXs do.
coreyinoz wrote: I don't have the luxury of exchanging so I plan on using WDIDLE3 - any opinions on S300 vs /D?
My opinion is that the NAS is happiest when it can control and be aware of what the drives are doing. So my preference would be to disable the timer with /d and then, if spindown is desired, to let noflushd handle that by enabling spindown in Frontview.
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