9 Sep
2012
9 Sep
'12
6 p.m.
Start by googling "WD30EZRX" which is the latest model green 3TB drive from WD
right off the bat you'll see some links talking about the problem I'm referring
to,which btw made me decide to stay away from it...
here's some example links:
http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/wd30ezrx-and-aggressive-head-parking/
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop-Portable-Drives/WD30EZRX-Load-unload-ve…
the second one has some examples of exactly what I was talking about, high LCC counts.once
you reach the drive limit, there goes your drive (or at least your warranty) which to me
is the same thing.
seems the only way around it would be to keep the drive heads busy, keep them from being
idle for more than 5 seconds,which is not actually a solution at all...
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 18:40:12 -0500
From: doc at vaxen.net
To:
Subject: Re: Why 'park' drive heads Re: Win (or lose) 3.10 (Was: Kaypro PC ? ==
Micro 1
On 9/9/12 1:22 PM, 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.
Citations, please.
Doc