DownloadThis linux/unix utility can be used to remove or set the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives.
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I can confirm this tool is working on brand new WD Red Plus drives (WD60EFZX) albeit I tested the latest version in the Gentoo Linux repository (0.9.3). Default timer was set at 5 minutes and the load cycle count was increasing with ~20/day. Not much compared to my dreaded WD Green drives back in the days but that experience burned me and I simply wanted to disable this functionality completely and the tool worked for that.
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Saved many of my hard drives from WD.
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It worked well on my WD30EZRX disks. Great little program and very easy to use. Would recommend to anyone having the Green Drives.
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I only wish I had found this earlier. It took ten minutes to take the disks out of the NAS, connect them to a machine, boot it with a linux live distro, download the source tarball, build, disable the darn idle feature, power off, return to the enclosures and be back in business. It will take months (if ever) to recover the data lost on a 1TB Green disk that is 100% healthy but for over 900,000 load cycle counts.
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Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 Firmware Version: 01.00A01 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] worked like a charm! I have a quite high load counter - too bad that i did not stumble across this tool much earlier... > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 178 > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 072 072 000 Old_age Always - 20696 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 175 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 341868