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Thanks Johnnie Black, Yes I know it is unRAID forum, but who could answer my queries better than you guys. Thanks for the reply.

Hi Everyone, Could you please help me to figure out what to do with my WD Green WD20EZRX 2 TB drive which is a year old now and working just fine. I have been using it on my Desktop PC for saving huge games and Video collection.I have read that a lot of people have changed their idle time to 300 using wdidlw.exe but most of them were using their HDD for Server or it was a part of their NAS. Few of them have even disabled the parking altogether, which I rather not do with EZRX drive. I ran smartctl on the disk and it shows : Spin up time 4,183 Start stop count 657 Power in hours 4,496 Power cycle count 465 Load cycle count 21,898 I haven't changed the idle time using WDIDLE tool yet. What would you recommend for me as I am not using it for a NAS or for server operations. But still, would love to see my HD to work for years to come. Would you recommend changing the idle time to 300? Any other utility if you would like to recommend to increase the life of the HDD and keep it in good health. Thanks a lot.

Hey Rajahal I read this whole thread just to figure out what to do with my WD Green WD20EZRX 2 TB drive which is a year old now. I have been using it on my Desktop PC for saving huge size games and Videos collection. I ran smartctl on the disk and it show : Spin up time 4183 Start stop count 657 Power in hours 4496 Power cycle count 465 Load cycle count 21,898 I haven't changed the idle time using WDIDLE tool yet. How was your experiment with the same, did you eventually increased the Idle time to 300? what would you recommend for me as I am not using it for a NAS or for server operations. But still, would love to see my HD to work for years to come. Any other utility if you would like to recommend to increase the life of the HDD and keep it maintained. Thanks a lot. I hope you are still following the thread.