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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 believe it means the head parking timer is set to 300 seconds on those drives. That is based on the info here: http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
129 -> 30 seconds
130 -> 60 seconds
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138 -> 300 seconds
129 -> 30 seconds
130 -> 60 seconds
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138 -> 300 seconds
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