WD has a utility to update RED drives that are experiencing high load cycle counts (LCC). It's called wd5741 and can be found at:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=619&sid=201&lang=en
I noticed one of my WD 3TB drives had an LCC of over 23k in less than a month of operation and the counts were increasing by over 100 each hour. Searching I found some users had addressed this using wdidle3 to adjust idle time although it was not specifically approved by WD for...
WD Utility for RED drives with High Load Cycle Counts
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=619&sid=201&lang=en
I noticed one of my WD 3TB drives had an LCC of over 23k in less than a month of operation and the counts were increasing by over 100 each hour. Searching I found some users had addressed this using wdidle3 to adjust idle time although it was not specifically approved by WD for...
WD Utility for RED drives with High Load Cycle Counts