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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...
ensign_ricky wrote: I have a disc spin down on my other NAS drives, (DNS 323, three of them) of 10 mins. I want to do the same to the NV+ but I want to be sure all is ok first. Any thoughts if this will cause problems with the WD20EARS discs?
I've had my drives set to spin-down since I first got my NV+ a few years back - I've never encountered any issue. I've usually set my drives to 5 or 10 minutes. There were no issues before the WD20EARS upgrade and I've not seen any problem since the WD20EARS drives were installed. I see no reason not to - the system is much cooler and happier when it's not in-use. :D As is the UPS that displays the power consumption for it. :D
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