It relieves me that pretty much everyone agrees it is the TLER issue. I will give wdidle3 a shot. Isn't that going to update the firmware of the HDs as well though? Any potential issue with moving each drive to another machine to perform the update and putting it back into the array? I wouldn't...
I purchased 4 WD20EARS drives on sale to create a more fault tolerant storage system for my home theater (movies, recorded television, music, etc) since my last external drive crashed losing all my data.
Now that I have the drives I read that pretty much of any drive out there the WD20EARS is...