moru

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  1. Hello everyone. I know this thread is really old but I have found this a few days ago when I was searching about WD20EZRX and IntelliPark. I have buyed a WD20EZRX and run the wdidle3 file. The bad thing is that the initial idletimer was set at 8 seconds, so the EZRX has this agressive parking issue as well (S.M.A.R.T. monitoring confirming, LLC permanently increasing when accesing the data on HDD). The good thing is that the timer can be disabled as rfway said. I have also found this procedure and it works fine. The only thing you need to do is to power off your computer, or remove the HDD from the power source after you disable the timer. If you don't power off the HDD after disabling the timer you will get bad performance and ugly seeking noises, something like the drive trying to park permanently when read / write. I've disabled the timer for some days and everything work's OK. No LLC increase, no bad performance or bad noise issues. The drive actually apeear to run a little smoother without this parking technology. By disabling the timer you don't loosing data on HDD. I've done this with the HDD 40% loaded. I just wanted to confirm that even on EZRX, the idle 3 mode can be completley deactivated without any issues, if you turn off the drive after disabling it.