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WD10EADS WD Caviar Green - 1TB >> excessive Load Cycle Count
I have two WD10EADS 1TB drives in my Duo. The first was installed a months ago as Drive 2, mirroring the 500 GB Seagate that came with the Duo. The WD drive seemed to work just fine, so I recently bo...
NAS-t wrote:
I can't explain why my two WD10EADS drives are behaving differently. I can think of three possibilities:- the two different models have different firmware, and they park/unpark the heads using different algorithms. (note that both my drives have the same 01.00A01 firmware).
This is the one I most agree with. WD created an algorithm to handle this load/unload issue. If the drives see excessive load/unloads it is supposed to set the timer to higher value something like 5 minutes (can't remember the exact value at this time). I think that sometimes for whatever reason the algorithm is not working exactly as expected. I talked to WD about the utility that a user can use to manually change this setting and they provided us with the same utility but the user does not have to pick a time but rather the software just sets it to 5 minutes. We will be posting a link to this software after we try it out here.
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