WD Red drives park their heads like WD Green drives?

dombera wrote:
Hi gents and lads, Synology user here with 5x 4TB WD RED WD40EFRX drives. Came across this post during my research. Found this post very useful and just wanted to share with you my FreeDOS ISO containing latest WDIDLE3 2.0.0.1 only. Package also contains unetbootin for Win and Mac - ver 5.85. https://app.box.com/s/1kk3q18e2y7ee396ib2p Regards,

-> Thanks, but this does not work as it's only for SATA speed adjustment.


So I used this bootcd image with wdidle 1.05 for adjustment and I can also successfully confirm that disabling works (for WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 with firmware 80.00A80):
http://www.jzab.de/content/wdidle-bootcd

First I must say that I'm very thankful for this thread! Many thanks to all! :thumbsup:

Just bought this week 2 of the WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 and was totally p***** after checking the LCC state in the SMART info for both discs and seeing the LCC counting up like hell....

WD: WTF they set up the drives to park the heads after 8 seconds?...

Just that you have an idea:

SMART-Attribute (disc 1)

Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 0
Start Stop Count 5
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 46
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 5
Power-Off Retract Count 3
Load Cycle Count 1465
Temperature Celsius 29
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0


SMART-Attribute (disc 2)

Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 0
Start Stop Count 4
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 29
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 4
Power-Off Retract Count 2
Load Cycle Count 1484
Temperature Celsius 28
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0

Cheers