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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...
It's not on the HCL, so netgear will likely deny support.
Supercows wrote: Reading this articel, is it save to buy the 4 TB version WD for the ultra 2 or is it better to buy another disk ?
However, it will work. You should check the load-cycle counts after installation, and if they climb you can reset them with the WDC software tool. That is easiest if you temporarily connect the drive to a windows PC.
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