>>106459969

Yes I did test three 2TB Red/Blue/Purple drives personally (they belong to the same disk family CarmelR Plus 2 Lite) and I'm happy with them because they're turned out to be real CMR drives with 2TB per platter density and I could succesfully disable head parking via Victoria's APM settings (on purple it's automatically disabled). Although people would prefer bigger drives.

I also did buy a pair of WD80EFPX (which are based on HGST drives and run at 5640 RPM despite that 5min head parking which can be bypassed via KeepHDAlive), one 8TB HGST, a couple of 2TB HGST as system drives and managed to avoid 4-6TB Reds/Blues/Purples once I found out that they're not real CMR. Unfortunately 4-6TB drives are taking the most hit right now.

>>106460020

It's technically impossible to disable head parking on 4, 6 and 8TB Reds/Blues. Only via software such as KeepHDAlive if it's at least 5min. 8 sec (which 4-8TB WD Blues have) is too fast to react and will accumulate thousands of load/unload cycles very fast. Yes PWL is another deliberate act of sabotage because older drives didn't have it and despite that many of them are capable of working 10+ years with no issues.