On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
it never has.WD uses it today in it's latest technology 3TB
drives.rather aggressive head parking feature, if the drive is idle for
5 seconds,it parks the heads.and there's no way to avoid this or alter
the behavior,this accounts for a LCC count of about 8k per 24 hour
period on average use.which means when you reach the LCC count of 300K,
the drive is dead. what a wonderfully stupid idea.
Stupid for us. Sells more drives for them.
g.
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