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Jobbigvolvo
Jun 17, 2011Aspirant
WD30EZRX Any problems ?
Its not on the official compatibility list ofc, but im hoping thats just a matter of time. Tho a confirmation from someone thats actually tried one would be much appreciated. This is for an Ultra4 p...
sdchew
Jun 20, 2012Aspirant
Amien wrote:
sdchew wrote: I'm running the 2 TB version (WD20EARX) for about 7 months now. No issues whatsoever. Curious about whether the idle setting is needed too. Or is it unique to the 3 TB drives? Note that I don't enable spin down on the NAS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqY5zlCXQmU
this explains it very good
YIKES! I looked at my SMART data on my hard disk. 2 of them are in there for 7 months and have over 500k load cycles. The last hard disk was installed about 2 months ago and is fast hitting 270k. In comparison, my laptop hard disk which has been in use for 2 years, has about 5k load cycle.
Going to disable the idle timer later tonight.
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