idle3-tools

This linux/unix utility can be used to remove or set the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives.

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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transpetaflops Posted 2021-09-17

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.
aaditya1234 Posted 2019-06-24

Saved many of my hard drives from WD.
mcaine Posted 2016-04-02

makefile? got this message: idle3ctl.o cc -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fkeep-inline-functions -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wnested-externs -Wtrigraphs -c -o idle3ctl.o idle3ctl.c
xuancong84 Edited 2015-08-08

It no longer works on the newest version WD drives, e.g. My Passport Ultra -:( It says: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument
antdude Posted 2015-01-25

No recent updates? :(

System Administrators, End Users/Desktop

Command-line

2010-06-16

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