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insane high Local Cycle Count after expansion
i have an RNDU6000. Recently i added a 6th disk to it. Western Digitaal 3TB Red. An offline expansion was need and successful in the end. I bought the 3TB brand new and only runs now for 2 months or ...
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The tool has a different name, I've not used it so I don't know whether it is exactly the same, but I believe it allows you to adjust the idle setting as with the wdidle tool.
I suspect netgear will not advise you on this as it is a drive issue and they won't want to expose themselves to any liability if they give you advice; that is, if they say it's ok then you lose data because of a drive failure then.....
Personally I'm like you, I can't stand it if things aren't perfect when I buy them. Having to make an adjustment like this on a NAS specific drive is ridiculous.
The tool has a different name, I've not used it so I don't know whether it is exactly the same, but I believe it allows you to adjust the idle setting as with the wdidle tool.
I suspect netgear will not advise you on this as it is a drive issue and they won't want to expose themselves to any liability if they give you advice; that is, if they say it's ok then you lose data because of a drive failure then.....
Personally I'm like you, I can't stand it if things aren't perfect when I buy them. Having to make an adjustment like this on a NAS specific drive is ridiculous.
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