Hi all,
I can’t for the love of god find any information about this old topic with head parking. After roughly 10 years my old 3TB WDRed (and one WD Green) drives started racking up some read failures so I started resilvering to new doubled capacity WD RedPlus (WD60EFPX). Now I’m 3/3 (3 drives yet to be replaced), but I revisited this many years old topic.
Now on my old (and now failing drive) drive I have 81009 power_on_hours with only 4881 load_cycle_count - which is OK I guess (I used wdidle to set the timer to 300s)?
While on the new 6TB drive with 90 hours I already racked up 211 LCCs … that would result in roughly 160k in the same amount of time, which is crazy (but well within the manufacturer boundaries).
Question: should I be bothered about this? Are the idle3-tools working for new drives? Or has something changed in the past 10 years?
thanks
I would not be bothered by this and I honestly don’t know if that tool works on the newer WD Drives, but I know exactly what you are talking about.
The previous limit decades ago was 300,000 cycles and some people could exceed that, so there was a huge thing about it. Seems like the manufacturers heard and doubled the warranty value to 600,000 cycles. I didn’t look at your drives specifically to check it out.
I try to make sure my drives do not load the heads more than 12 times a day (24 hours). Of course mine now only load upon reboot or power cycle.
I would tell you, the warranty is more important here, 160K will not exceed the drive warranty. Your drive may die 1 day after the warranty expires, and likely not due to the head loading.
In the GUI, do you have Advanced Power Management Disabled and HDD Standby set to Always On? Those are my settings.
Hi Joe,
yes, the settings are on all the new ones:
Disk Type: HDD
Description:
Model: WDC_WD60EFPX-68C5ZN0
Transfer Mode: Auto
Rotation Rate (RPM): 5400
HDD Standby: Always On
Adv. Power Management: Disabled
Not sure if APM should be set to lvl 128 … (no standby) ?
