In store too, people on slickdeals are getting a mix of 2 and 3 platter versions, all with 3 years warranty.

 

http://www.frys.com/product/6070278

 

Probably won't last too long going by last times sale for the 8mb, 1 year warranty version.

Thanks, just bought a pair.

Yes, thank you for this!  My array got a little bigger 

Good catch!

Looks like deal has turned to bait. You can select drive but the order can't be finilaized.

 

Shipping: Unavailable 

Store Pickup: Unavailable 

Looks like deal has turned to bait. You can select drive but the order can't be finilaized.

 

Shipping: Unavailable 

Store Pickup: Unavailable 

 

Maybe they ran out. I ordered two a couple days ago.

My CC was charged, a day later I received a fedex tracking number.

In store too, people on slickdeals are getting a mix of 2 and 3 platter versions, all with 3 years warranty.

 

http://www.frys.com/product/6070278

 

Probably won't last too long going by last times sale for the 8mb, 1 year warranty version.

 

Anyone aware of this high "Load Cycle" count issue in this particular WD model?

 

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32179

Anyone aware of this high "Load Cycle" count issue in this particular WD model?

 

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32179

 

I used to be concerned, but these drives have been in use for a while and people with the worst case WD10EACS setups have 2-3 million cycles on them without issue. With the WD10EADS I recall reading WD changed the way LLCs were tracked and basically hid the high head load/unload cycles. With the newer 2 platter variant they seem to have restored it to the correct count like the WD10EACS used. I have a 00M2B0 drive with more LLCs in 1,000 hours than 7 00L5B1 in combined 35,000 hours. That's extremely unlikely.

 

I used the wdidle3 tool on my first batch of green drives because when unmenu refreshes every 10 seconds it causes these drives heads to do a load cycle until the drives spin down. Six load cycles a minute for an hour, until my spindown, has surely inflated the count on my unflashed drives. I've since switch to a 15m spindown and intend to flash the drives back to 8 second head parks now that I trust them more and have a full backup.

 

I returned a flashed one for an advanced rma without issues by the way. It turned out to be a cable problem too, so the drive was fine. WD sent a 00M2B0 if anyone cares.

 

All end user consumer drives are intended for use no more than eight hours a day. There's nothing special about the WD rep saying these aren't recommended for a NAS or RAID.

 

Edit: Unraid's network traffic freeze on disk spinups is the only thing keeping it from being a perfect media server for me. I wish XBMC could buffer X seconds of playback to make it a non-issue. I went with WD green drives in large part because of head parking so I could use longer full spin down times to avoid spinup interruptions and still conserve some power/heat. The heat savings of 5400rpm alone were worth it when using drive enclosures.