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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...
I just received a WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 drive from Amazon a couple of days ago. I verified with the WDIDLE3 tool that the Idle3 timer was set to 8 seconds. I went ahead and installed it in my Ultra 4 to see how it worked. In the 1st 24 hours I have seen the LCC count continuously grow up to about 1200.
I have opened a ticket up with WD to see what they recommend. I understand I could probably run the WDIDLE tool with either /S300 or /D to solve this, but according to WD they do not recommend using the tool on this drive. I am anxious to here what they say should be done (if anything).
I will post back once I hear from their Tech Support.
I have opened a ticket up with WD to see what they recommend. I understand I could probably run the WDIDLE tool with either /S300 or /D to solve this, but according to WD they do not recommend using the tool on this drive. I am anxious to here what they say should be done (if anything).
I will post back once I hear from their Tech Support.
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