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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...
I was asked to post a "how to" regarding WDIDLE3 and WDTLER in a PM and figured I would post it for all.
@NAS-t
I would be glad to help. I believe you are in luck with the firmware that you have. I have 5 of the WD20EADS drives with this firmware. Four of them have required no WDTLER or WDIDLE3 fixes. Have you put these in your RN yet and monitored SMART status? Look particularly at Load Cycle Count (LCCs) escalation. I am at work right now but from the top of my head this is what I did.
1. Searched for WDTLER and WDIDLE3 fixes which are DOS apps.
2. Made a bootable DOS disk with both of these on it.
3. Connected the WD drive while still in caddy to old Windoze IDE motherboard using a IDE to SATA adapter that I got from Amazon for about $10. If you have a Windoze computer with a SATA connector you do not need this.
Here is a great link that I essentially followed.
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic ... 24&t=20907
Hope this helps.
bigbearf
@NAS-t
I would be glad to help. I believe you are in luck with the firmware that you have. I have 5 of the WD20EADS drives with this firmware. Four of them have required no WDTLER or WDIDLE3 fixes. Have you put these in your RN yet and monitored SMART status? Look particularly at Load Cycle Count (LCCs) escalation. I am at work right now but from the top of my head this is what I did.
1. Searched for WDTLER and WDIDLE3 fixes which are DOS apps.
2. Made a bootable DOS disk with both of these on it.
3. Connected the WD drive while still in caddy to old Windoze IDE motherboard using a IDE to SATA adapter that I got from Amazon for about $10. If you have a Windoze computer with a SATA connector you do not need this.
Here is a great link that I essentially followed.
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic ... 24&t=20907
Hope this helps.
bigbearf
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