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Title: Western Digital green in this NAS?
Post by: badbob2 on September 27, 2013, 11:52:50 AM

I just checked the WD 1TB Green EAC in my Qnap and LLC is 100K.

I have a DNS-323 with ALT F firmware. Would it be ok to use the Greens in this NAS or will the problem arise, as the drive parks heads after 8 seconds if it's been inactive.

Title: Re: Western Digital green in this NAS?
Post by: fordem on September 27, 2013, 03:15:24 PM

First - if you're running Alt-F firmware you might be better off asking on their support forum, because generally speaking it's the firmware that dictates how the unit responds.

Second - regardless of what the drive is used in - how head parking affects the LLC is going to be determined by the frequency with which you access the drive - if you access the drive once a day, and run a backup job that takes an hour (which is essentially what I do), an 8 second park interval is neither here nor there, but if you're accessing the drive every few minutes (for example, streaming music), it's going to be parking the heads and then reloading them very often.

Personally I think 8 seconds is way too short but what do I know ...