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  1. I am here to tell you this information about "do not disable intellipark with wdidle3 /d on WD30EZRX drives" is INCORRECT. I just did this to 6 of these drives before installing in a new Synology DS1812+ box. The key is to remove power from the drive and then re-test. If you do not remove power from the drives after disabling Intellipark, they will not behave properly (as most of WD's other drives). I tested the drive right after setting it without removing power from it and it is slow (about 30 MB/s transfer rate and a flat transfer across the entire disk space). Once pulling power from the drive and re-testing.....it actually transfers data smoother and ever so slightly faster across the entire disk. See my verification images using HD Tune Pro here (notice how the transfer rate is actually smoother on the drive with "wdidle3 /d" applied). I did verify the drives have an 8 sec. park rate before modification. Just do it! My Synology box screams (saturates Gigabit Ethernet in both directions from my Win7 machine with Windows file copies in either direction).