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Western Digital WD Red 1 TB Actual User Experience?
Good evening, I'm slowly watching the LCC count creep up on my 3 Western Digital WD Green 1 TB drives. My 1 Western Digital WD Red has 0 LCC's - after 99 power on hours. The Green disk that was ad...
I have the 3 TB model, it's been powered up for 1230 hours, and has a load cycle count of 8. I think that is due to occasional spin down - the start/stop count is 14, and the power down count is 6, so that would add up.
According to http://www.anandtech.com/print/6157
The first three are firmware tweaks, but the last one is a hardware mod.
They also increased the warranty to 3 years (presently 2 years for consumer drives, though last year this time it was 3 years for all their consumer drives).
mdgm wrote: ...It's pretty much a WD Green drive with a few tweaks to make it more suitable for NAS use, I think...
According to http://www.anandtech.com/print/6157
Less aggressive head parking (no IntelliPark feature)
Configurable Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER), with a default of 7 seconds
IntelliPower disk rotation speeds (comparable to Green drives)
Vibration reduction mechanism in hardware
The first three are firmware tweaks, but the last one is a hardware mod.
They also increased the warranty to 3 years (presently 2 years for consumer drives, though last year this time it was 3 years for all their consumer drives).
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