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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 installed 2 WD Red 3 TB drives. The number look better than others, but should I be happy about these readings.
Drive 5
Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Firmware: 80.00A80
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 5116
Start Stop Count 81
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 320
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 8
Power-Off Retract Count 1
Load Cycle Count 79
Temperature Celsius 38
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0
Drive 6
Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Firmware: 80.00A80
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 5216
Start Stop Count 16
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 34
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 4
Power-Off Retract Count 1
Load Cycle Count 14
Temperature Celsius 36
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0
Drive 5
Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Firmware: 80.00A80
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 5116
Start Stop Count 81
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 320
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 8
Power-Off Retract Count 1
Load Cycle Count 79
Temperature Celsius 38
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0
Drive 6
Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Firmware: 80.00A80
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 5216
Start Stop Count 16
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 34
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 4
Power-Off Retract Count 1
Load Cycle Count 14
Temperature Celsius 36
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0
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