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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...
pfile wrote: 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?
@pfile,
I do have my Duo configured to spin-down, after 20 minutes. You are correct in that the heads are not parking/unparking while the drives are spun down: the LCC count doesn't change and I don't hear the heads chattering away. The LCC would be much higher if I did not have the drive spinning down.
The caveat you are referring to in the Official Drive Compatibility list pre-dates version 4.1.5. The Netgear footnote indicates that the WD GP drives should be ok to spin down on 4.1.5 and later releases.
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