WD20EARS just added on the official HCL - mistake and issues

manocc wrote:

POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE to WDIDLE3? I have 4 WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and plan to install them in my nv+ in the next few days. From my research it seems clear that the LLC issue has to be dealt with and I see that the popular solution is to connect the disks to a separate machine, boot a dos environment and use WDIDLE to increase the idle timeout. I came across this alternate solution and I'll probably give it a try. http://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/hardware/readynas-wd-caviar-green It involves SSHing to the nas and using the hdparm command to effectively tune down the load/unload frequency - much more convenient than connecting to another box and booting dos. Has anyone tried this? Any experiences? I'll provide an update when I've had a chance to try it out but would love to hear from anybody who has experience with this. I couldn't find any reference to this in the forums.