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WD20EARS just added on the official HCL - mistake and issues
The official HCL has (quietly !) been updated for Sparc based machines with a 2TB WD desktop class drive: the WD20EARS (http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82). This is in principle good news as the WD20...
I don't believe you can run WDIDLE3 over a USB connection. Although I did try it with my Windows laptop. If you get it to work, let me know :-)
BTW, if you search around you can find comments from WD that the LCC count isn't a concern. I posted a link on some thread here. But of course there is a lot of talk on the intertubes about it. However write performance is quite poor with my Duo and apparently the 4K sector size on the this model of WD20EARS is the cause. Netgear posted they will update the firmware but no info on when and apparently the x86 code base will be fixed first.
BTW, if you search around you can find comments from WD that the LCC count isn't a concern. I posted a link on some thread here. But of course there is a lot of talk on the intertubes about it. However write performance is quite poor with my Duo and apparently the 4K sector size on the this model of WD20EARS is the cause. Netgear posted they will update the firmware but no info on when and apparently the x86 code base will be fixed first.
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