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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...
mdgm wrote: Odd. My WD30EFRX drives don't have high load cycle counts and I didn't need to run WDIDLE3 on them.
It's all very frustrating. That's what I was hoping for. Up to 2200 over 56 hours in the ReadyNAS...
My local PC shop will charge me a re-stocking fee to return this, and I just went through hours of work to migrate to this drive when I had heard about this and noticed my Green was up to 1.7M LLC.
Anand says that the Red's are defaulted to /d to begin with - so I'm going to set it to /300 and report back. I also have a ticket in with WD - if they ever answer...
To their credit, Netgear has come back and forth with me 3 times already - essentially pointing me to WDIDLE and washing their hands of it.
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