[lug] Head load/unload cycles on WD disks

[duboulder]

I've been avoiding WD drives the last few years due to frequent head load/unload. Especially on green drives (one died with ~2 million cycles at 2yrs). Even smartctl -s standby,off didn't seem to reduce the frequency.

Our external seagate drives don't have this problem(1). Has WD gotten any better the last couple of years? Just wondering if it is safe to use WD again.


(1) -- Seagate Laptop HDD - ST3000LM016-1N217V --
Start_Stop_Count   59
Power_On_Hours     27919
Head_Flying_Hours  27912 (3.1 yrs)
Load_Cycle_Count   83
Total_LBAs_Written 38,187,200,047
Total_LBAs_Read    35,940,540,839