I have a problem with the new 4TB RED drive. I am using synology ds1511+ and a DX510 expansion.
It seems that the 4TB has a high LCC compared to my 3TB RED. The 3TB was installed months ago while the 4TB was installed 3days ago. Here are the Stats:
3TB :
Power_On_Hours - 5479
Load_Cycle_count - 36
4TB:
Power_On_Hours - 76
Load_Cycle_count - 288
Obviously, something is not right regarding the 4TB. Is there any fix on this? Firmware update maybe?
I have the same problem. now after 160h both drives have > 1400 LCC
I wrote a mail to WD and all that came back was some sh*t about how they test the drives and quality check them and so on…
also they said there is currently no Firmware to deactivate the LCC function for the WD40EFRX and the WDIDLE3 can only be used on your own risk but wont work for those drives.
If they continue to ignore the question if its a problem or not, I wont every buy a single HDD from WD again…
I used this on the WD Red drives in my Synology NAS and it appears to resolve the excessive LCC issue. Of course if you NAS sleeps and wakes up a lot the LCC count will increment.
I removed hard drive from my external NAS hard drive and I got the same model number as you WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, found it here. Seems like Load Cycle Count is still not solved