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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...
vandermerwe wrote: WD need to be made aware of the level of customer dissatisfaction this issue is causing. It doesn't only affect Netgear products - Qnap and Synology are affected too.
Synology user here - been following this topic with great interest. Just wanted to point out that this should be a non-issue for Synology owners as DSM 3.2+ disables Idle3 at power-up.
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