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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...
Scouser wrote: If I do /d these drives, does anyone know how to return them to their default with LCC switched back on and set to the default LCC value. BTW what is the default LCC value.
If you haven't modified it yet, you can read the default idle3 timer value:
idle3ctl -g /dev/sdX
To disable the idle3 timer:
idle3ctl -d /dev/sdX
My WD40EFRX drives were (mis)configured by Western Digital with a default idle3 timer value of 80 (decimal). To set your drive's idle3 timer value to 80:
idle3ctl -s80 /dev/sdX
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