Just upgraded from original Seagate 1Tb to brand new Western Digital 2Tb WD2002FYPS in a ReadyNAS 1100.All right!/Dat4WD

dat4wd wrote:Just upgraded from original Seagate 1Tb to brand new Western Digital 2Tb WD2002FYPS.All right!/Dat4WDSweet! You're the first person I've seen on here say they have one of these drives in a ReadyNAS. Everyone else seems to have the WD20EADS.Any issues, problems getting it in and working?

midspace wrote:dat4wd wrote:Just upgraded from original Seagate 1Tb to brand new Western Digital 2Tb WD2002FYPS.All right!/Dat4WDSweet! You're the first person I've seen on here say they have one of these drives in a ReadyNAS. Everyone else seems to have the WD20EADS.Any issues, problems getting it in and working?No problem. No issues. All works fine!

I'm thinking about upgrading to from Seagte750's to WD2002FYPS. Looks like its been about 2 months since this was posted - any problems?Thanks

davec wrote:I'm thinking about upgrading to from Seagte750's to WD2002FYPS. Looks like its been about 2 months since this was posted - any problems?ThanksNo problem as before...

I popped a WD2002FYPS into my NV+ the other day. Initialisation and resynching went fine, but I did get the insanely fast increase in "load cycle count" that others have reported. Are you guys seeing the same thing (in the SMART information for the drive, obtained via FrontView)? My old plain (non-Green) WD's have racked up something like 2500 Load Cycles in over a year of service, the WD2002FYPS got to the same amount in a matter of days, and it will hit the maximum rated cycles before the year is out at this rate.WD have acknowledged a problem with the "Green" feature of their newer drives, especially in combination with Linux or various NAS boxes. For the 750G to 1.5TB drives they have released a utility that disables the Green feature, but the tool does not work on the 2TB drives (yet). Until they address this issue, I'm not using these 2TB drives in my ReadyNAS.

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mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 15, 2010

reburns wrote:

It's my understanding that the functionality of wdidle3 has been incorporated within RAIDiator since version 4.2.5 . I've been using these drives since last summer in a Pro at the direction of the techs and have load cycle count < 1K. Hope that helps.

reburns wrote:
It's my understanding that the functionality of wdidle3 has been incorporated within RAIDiator since version 4.2.5 . I've been using these drives since last summer in a Pro at the direction of the techs and have load cycle count < 1K. Hope that helps.

There was an add-on that needed to be installed to get the drives to work properly with 4.2.5. That is no longer necessary with the latest RAIDiator.

dupko

Aspirant

Jul 16, 2012

mdgm wrote:
reburns wrote:

It's my understanding that the functionality of wdidle3 has been incorporated within RAIDiator since version 4.2.5 . I've been using these drives since last summer in a Pro at the direction of the techs and have load cycle count < 1K. Hope that helps.

There was an add-on that needed to be installed to get the drives to work properly with 4.2.5. That is no longer necessary with the latest RAIDiator.

Thats good news :roll:

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 16, 2012
WDIDLE3 is not built into RAIDiator. There was a separate issue that was addressed in RAIDiator 4.2.7. The compatible version of the WD2002FYPS is specified in the notes on the compatibility list.

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