WD Red drives park their heads like WD Green drives?

jerryk wrote:
I have the spin down set for 10 minutes.

That explains the high start/stop count. I don't see any problem leaving the threshold there. Personally I use longer thresholds (~60 minutes).

jerryk wrote:
I just have a basic concerned based on some of the comments in this thread and on the internet in general about the Red drives. Seems like a number of people have had premature failures of the drives.

For a brief period a WDC firmware change reset the head parking threshold too low for the ReadyNAS - which resulted in rapidly rising load cycle counts. They have since fixed that (and provided a tool to allow people to adjust those thresholds themselves if needed).

If you had that issue, your load cycle counts would have been much higher.

I don't know about the "internet in general". I am running 8 of these drives in various NAS (a 2 TB model in a duo v1, 5 3 TB in a pro-6, and two 3 TB models in an RN102). The oldest has been running more than 15000 hours, several others are over 10000. The newest has about 2700. I've had no problems with any of them.

As far as I can tell from the posts here, NAS users are finding them to be quite reliable. Note that all drives have some failures, and people who have problems are more likely to post their experience than people who aren't having any.