My mediaserver (Windows 8) is running out of storage space so I am looking for a new 3TB or 4TB harddrive. I had a preference for a WD drive but I am having second thoughts when I read about problems with head parking with both WD Red and Green drives.
As I understood a WD Green/Red drive is head parked after 8 seconds. That seems useful when used in a desktop pc but my pc is mainly a fileserver that is on during the day and only standby during the night. I noticed there is a tool to change the setting on WD Red drives as they are made to function in a NAS. But Red drives have the TLER function which is perfect for a RAID envirement but not so good for a non-RAID pc as it disables the reading of bad sectors after 7 seconds.
My question: is the head parking setting still standard on WD Red and Green drives? Which drive should I use in my server then? To get rid of the setting I don’t want to use third party tools that WD does not support.
