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fastfwd
Virtuoso
Oct 15, 2013

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...
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Retired_Member
May 17, 2014
I just confirm > I HAVE BOUGHT NEW WD RED 4TB today, i have checked default value by using guide from posts in this topic and IT IS SET BY DEFAULT TO 300.

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