I have for my NAS (Synology 214+) disks required. Since the 4 TB Reds from Western Digital, the maximum TB memory and I have generally made with Western Digital very good experience, I researched before buying. And I came across the Load Cycle Count problem. Briefly: the hard drive is parked, the read-write heads after a certain time and the count is incremented by 1. From a certain number (I think 300,000) is now final. In general, this number is not reached. However, it was at the Red 4TB hard drives from Western Digital so that this park-state of the heads has been activated after a few seconds. Especially with a NAS, which is much in operation, so the number was counted very quickly. So I was careful with the purchase and waited positive reviews. This actually came up with the 2014, so I ordered from Amazon two pieces. Important to me was that the disks are not were in stock, so Amazon sent me a new batch that hopefully the LCC problem would no longer then. So that was it. Although I had a few extra days to wait, but my hard drives are made of 2014 (is that I know of on the hard drive on it) and the LCC-Counter in the Synology (found in the Start menu under memory management, there then on the tab HDD Administration and then with SMART click SMART information, there is under ID 193 at the raw data of the column LCC value) is after about a month ago Runtime 96th
The delivery was smooth and well packaged. The hard drives were not loose in box, but were fixed in a sort of plastic "suspension", so that here also nothing that could happen to a hard blow.
