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NAS_t
Aug 14, 2009Aspirant
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...
pfile
Aug 25, 2009Aspirant
so i assume that if one has their box configured to spin the disks down, that the load/unload count will probably not increment, at least while the drives are spun down? unless this is actually still a bad idea on WD drives; i can't tell if those caveats about WD and spindown in the official compatibility list is old information by now.
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