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Readynas Duo v2 poor performance on SMB connection
Hi Everybody, when I connect to my ReadyNAS trought a SMB connection I always obtain only 10MB/s read and write (it depends on the disk: less space seems to upgrade performance :shock: ). The funn...
Yes, the load cycle count does refer to the number of times the head gets parked. The parking threshold on the green drives is set appropriately for windows PCs, but is too short for linux, so the heads park very frequently.
Nutty667 wrote: Ahh isn't the Load Cycle Count referring to the number of times the head gets parked or something. I vaguely remember there being some kind of firmware issue causing that to get excessive on WD Green's.
There's a nominal spec of 300K load cycles, though my drives are well above that and aren't showing any issues.
You can run WDIDLE3 to adjust this threshold if you wish. Or just plan to replace the drive with another red at some point.
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