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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...
Thanks coreyinoz. Great writeup. I guess I dont care too much to have to disable the LLC timer but its disappointing for a NAS class drive.
Ideally, I would like to see if this problem occurs on these new drives but the time it takes to rebuild them makes it it unlikely....there are two drives to replace so that's time x 2.
I think I will just go ahead and /D the drives before I use them. Anyway, I will let you know how I go.
vandermerwe, this is not an option. First off the drives had already been shipped by the time I added my comment so too late to cancel the order. Secondly, as I said I am working overseas. Actually wont be back in the UK, where the server is until 4th Dec. So I cant ship them back and get something else in replacement in time for Xmas at least not in the UK.....and I cant afford for my server to be down another drive until next year. I am depending on a) these are good drives, b) that they work as advertised and c) that they are supported by Netgear and d) that I swore to myself that I would never get a Seagate drive again.
I understand that by twidleing /D I may break warranty but I have no option....and I can always re-twiddle /D back later....assuming the drives dont crash and burn altogether.
Anyway, glad I found this thread. Thanks again guys.
Ideally, I would like to see if this problem occurs on these new drives but the time it takes to rebuild them makes it it unlikely....there are two drives to replace so that's time x 2.
I think I will just go ahead and /D the drives before I use them. Anyway, I will let you know how I go.
vandermerwe, this is not an option. First off the drives had already been shipped by the time I added my comment so too late to cancel the order. Secondly, as I said I am working overseas. Actually wont be back in the UK, where the server is until 4th Dec. So I cant ship them back and get something else in replacement in time for Xmas at least not in the UK.....and I cant afford for my server to be down another drive until next year. I am depending on a) these are good drives, b) that they work as advertised and c) that they are supported by Netgear and d) that I swore to myself that I would never get a Seagate drive again.
I understand that by twidleing /D I may break warranty but I have no option....and I can always re-twiddle /D back later....assuming the drives dont crash and burn altogether.
Anyway, glad I found this thread. Thanks again guys.
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