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WD10EARS-00MVWB0
This drive is apparently supported, however I have 1 installed and it's showing 12 ATA errors. Does this mean that actually this will start increasing and eventually fail? Model: WDC WD10EARS-00MV...
Ok so reading around it looks like I need to use the WDUtil to increase the park/idle timeout from 8 seconds to 300 seconds, this should dramatically reduce the number of parks the drive does thus saving the drive mechanism from premature wear. I can then use the Duo's spin down timer + the drive built in spin down timers to save power.
I've installed the 2nd drive and it's showing 0 ATA errors, I'm guessing the 1st drive just had a fart when it was first powered on the ATA error count for that drive is still 12 and doesn't look to be increasing.
Now I'm just re-discovering how pants wifi networks are for copying Gigs of data :roll: :lol: my router only has a 10/100mbit switch built in but I'm sure I have a desktop switch somewhere that is Gigabit.
I've installed the 2nd drive and it's showing 0 ATA errors, I'm guessing the 1st drive just had a fart when it was first powered on the ATA error count for that drive is still 12 and doesn't look to be increasing.
Now I'm just re-discovering how pants wifi networks are for copying Gigs of data :roll: :lol: my router only has a 10/100mbit switch built in but I'm sure I have a desktop switch somewhere that is Gigabit.
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