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I put the drives back into a PC to triple-check the EPC settings with showEPCSettings, and they definitely have not reset:
Idle A 0 *1 *1 1 Y Y Idle B 0 *1200 *1200 4 Y Y Idle C 0 6000 6000 60 Y Y Standby Z 0 9000 9000 150 Y Y
I also ran them in the PC for 24 hours and the load cycles went up another two points for both drives, so I guess that rules out the DAS. Again, the PC had HDD spindown disabled and did not restart during that time.
As for the wisdom of enabling/disabling head parking: You make a compelling argument there. The same thoughts have occurred to me and I'm pretty much on the fence about it. Maybe I'll reenable parking and see how rapidly it climbs.
I would still love to know what exactly why it's increasing when it's supposed to be disabled, just to satisfy my curiosity.