December 28, 20241 yr Hey, I got three of those wd drives from wd elements that I had laying around and shucked them to build a new array, their head park timer is 8 seconds which causes a high load cycle count. My question is does anyone know if wdidle3.exe works on those? and if yes should I just increase the timer or disable it fully if possible? I tried hdparm but that did not work, head still parks after 8 sec.
January 1, 20251 yr Author Update: wdidle3.exe works with this drive, if you set it to /S300 or any other different timer the drive clicks every 8 seconds tho, but if you use /D to disable the timer it seems to work fine, no unusal noises and no speed issues so far. Edited January 1, 20251 yr by crustcalvin
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