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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...
Aw craps! I just ordered two of these today from amazon. Now I read this thread with concern. I ordered these drives because my Seagate crappy drives have plagued my Pro 6 for some time now and one has finally given up, the oter is on its way out. I vouched to never buy a Seagate drive again! So I read the HCL and chose the WD30EFRX.
Too late now..... I cant stop the order.
So, I will get the drives in a few days. In readiness can you tell me more about this WDIDLE3 tool you mention. Where do I get it? Is there any documentation about it or links etc.
I will run the tests and report back with the detail when I get home (be a week as I am working overseas).
BTW my Seagates are ST31500341AS 1.5TB.....with the damn write-cache problem. I ended up writing a script to auto turn off the write-cache at boot. But these drives have had constant realloation sector count increases since I got them. I got no help from their support here in the UK.
Too late now..... I cant stop the order.
So, I will get the drives in a few days. In readiness can you tell me more about this WDIDLE3 tool you mention. Where do I get it? Is there any documentation about it or links etc.
I will run the tests and report back with the detail when I get home (be a week as I am working overseas).
BTW my Seagates are ST31500341AS 1.5TB.....with the damn write-cache problem. I ended up writing a script to auto turn off the write-cache at boot. But these drives have had constant realloation sector count increases since I got them. I got no help from their support here in the UK.
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