I found out that it is a known problem - there are numerous reports around. The Green Caviar puts its heads into parking position after 8 seconds idle time. Now when the OS periodically performs a disk operation the heads will be permantly parked and un-parked on an low loaded system which causes the load cycle count to explode, So it is more a desktop than a server problem. There are romours that the Green Caviar is advertised as desktop product …
I wounder what will happen when I return the drive to WD for replacement in a few month when it will surely have failed!
Green Caviar ■■■■■!
