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fastfwd
Oct 15, 2013Virtuoso
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...
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 18, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
Odd. My WD30EFRX drives don't have high load cycle counts and I didn't need to run WDIDLE3 on them.
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