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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...
@lindebrand
We're in exactly the same boat. (actually, a similar boat, as I have only one of the newer -00M2BO drives)
Based on my research to date, it's not clear that excessive LCC will lead necessarily to early drive failure. There's one body of opinion that high LCC is not a fundamental problem on its own, and that it's nothing to worry about. Others feel that if the drive does fail early (i.e. before the 3 year warranty expires), WD might refuse to RMA it, claiming that the drive was abused by the constant parking and unparking.
Personally, I have a concern about premature failure. I'm also bothered by the noise. My Duo sits right on my desk, and until my drives spin down, I can hear the heads on the -00M2B0 constantly parking and unparking. It's as if they're calling out to me "we're wearing out, we're wearing out..".
I opened a ticket with WD on this 10 days ago. They have yet to respond. I think it's likely that they messed up with the firmware in the -00M2B0. The previous version (with 3 platters) does not have this problem. But there are reports that the first version of the WD10EADS (with 4 platters) also experienced excessive LCC. Makes me think that WD tweaked the firmware for the -00L5B1 drive (rev 01.01A01) to address the issue, but forgot to propagate this fix into the firmware for the -00M2B0 (rev 01.00A01).
We're in exactly the same boat. (actually, a similar boat, as I have only one of the newer -00M2BO drives)
Based on my research to date, it's not clear that excessive LCC will lead necessarily to early drive failure. There's one body of opinion that high LCC is not a fundamental problem on its own, and that it's nothing to worry about. Others feel that if the drive does fail early (i.e. before the 3 year warranty expires), WD might refuse to RMA it, claiming that the drive was abused by the constant parking and unparking.
Personally, I have a concern about premature failure. I'm also bothered by the noise. My Duo sits right on my desk, and until my drives spin down, I can hear the heads on the -00M2B0 constantly parking and unparking. It's as if they're calling out to me "we're wearing out, we're wearing out..".
I opened a ticket with WD on this 10 days ago. They have yet to respond. I think it's likely that they messed up with the firmware in the -00M2B0. The previous version (with 3 platters) does not have this problem. But there are reports that the first version of the WD10EADS (with 4 platters) also experienced excessive LCC. Makes me think that WD tweaked the firmware for the -00L5B1 drive (rev 01.01A01) to address the issue, but forgot to propagate this fix into the firmware for the -00M2B0 (rev 01.00A01).
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