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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...
Since drives are spec'd to handle at least 150K (and usually 300K) LCC, I don't think 10-15 load cycles per week should be a concern to anyone.
PapaBear wrote: On further point. I looked at my other unit, the NVX BE that is in backup service, and the first Hitachi in that array had slightly less than 11, 400 hours and an LCC of 781. But it also had the same number for start/stops and power cycle and power off retract count. It also had disk spin down enabled which most likely accounts for the high count. If you are going to be evaluating a drive for those numbers, you might want to make sure spin down is NOT enabled.
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