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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...
Hello everyone.
I bought a Duo 2 days ago with one 500GB (Seagate Pipeline) drive in it. So far I'm impressed, even though I hardly know anything about this stuff :).
I was planning to use 2x1TB drives in my Duo, and I ordered 2 of these drives (Two WD10EADS-00M2BO were delivered). I've so far just inserted one of the drives in the before empty slot.
And I'm getting a bit worried about these drives not going to last. My 1TB-drive has a power hour of 7 hours, and just broke 100 LCC. (without Spin-down enabled).
Is this going to be a huge problem? I want the drives to last as long as possible of course, and as I've understood WD can't support more then 300.000 LCC and the warranty is canceled after that? I've read that the typical lifetime a disk can have 300.000-600.000 LCCs before breakdown, but I've also read about people with more then 1.5 million of them. Should I worry?
I'm going to call my supplier and see if I can get the one drive I've used replaced. If I can, should I?
Or should I just stick with both of them even though rapidly increasing LCCs? As I've not used one of them I can atleast send one back, and try and get another on the compatibility list.
Is there any advantages of having two identical discs instead of two different?
I hope you can answer my questions. Thanks in advance.
/lindebrand
I bought a Duo 2 days ago with one 500GB (Seagate Pipeline) drive in it. So far I'm impressed, even though I hardly know anything about this stuff :).
I was planning to use 2x1TB drives in my Duo, and I ordered 2 of these drives (Two WD10EADS-00M2BO were delivered). I've so far just inserted one of the drives in the before empty slot.
And I'm getting a bit worried about these drives not going to last. My 1TB-drive has a power hour of 7 hours, and just broke 100 LCC. (without Spin-down enabled).
Is this going to be a huge problem? I want the drives to last as long as possible of course, and as I've understood WD can't support more then 300.000 LCC and the warranty is canceled after that? I've read that the typical lifetime a disk can have 300.000-600.000 LCCs before breakdown, but I've also read about people with more then 1.5 million of them. Should I worry?
I'm going to call my supplier and see if I can get the one drive I've used replaced. If I can, should I?
Or should I just stick with both of them even though rapidly increasing LCCs? As I've not used one of them I can atleast send one back, and try and get another on the compatibility list.
Is there any advantages of having two identical discs instead of two different?
I hope you can answer my questions. Thanks in advance.
/lindebrand
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