WD Red drives park their heads like WD Green drives?

Scouser wrote:
Aw craps! I just ordered two of these today from amazon. Now I read this thread with concern.

Before you panic - WDIDLE3 isn't a huge amount of work - just annoying to have to do it at all on a drive marketed as NAS specific. There are ways to do this in the NAS itself, but I found it far easier to shut down the NAS - pop the drive into my desktop, run WDIDLE3 and then put the drive back. Took no more than 5 minutes.

Create a bootable USB DOS key with Rufus: http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Get a copy of WDIDLE3 and put it on your USB stick.

You can get version 1.0.5 from WD direct here: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113
You can get 2.0.0.1 from a user on the QNAP forums who says that WD sent it to him as part of a service ticket: http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=182&t=83577&p=383135&sid=1bcbda0761b0855314902b569c34974a#p382825

I'm not clear on the changelog between 1.05 and 2.0.0.1.

At the DOS prompt run WDIDLE3 /R to see the current drive setting, then WDIDLE3 /D to disable the timer.

Pop it back in the NAS and you're good.

So far so good for me - LCC has grown 3 since reboot 9 hours ago - putting me on track for less than 10/day - a lot less than 1K+ per day up until now.