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WD Red drives park their heads like WD Green drives?
So I checked the SMART stats on my new 4TB Red drive (WD40EFRX) today. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that in only 249 power-on hours it has already experienced 36820 load/unload cycles! Me...
WDIDLE3 is an old program, and WDC says it isn't compatible with all their drives. The new program is what they want you to use, and they've gone to the trouble to provide windows, mac, and linux versions.
I don't know why you'd want a DOS program, but feel free to use whatever. HDPARM also apparently can be used.
I don't know why you'd want a DOS program, but feel free to use whatever. HDPARM also apparently can be used.
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