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HDD Load Cycle Count

Casterina
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I have a 1TB WD Blue 5400RPM drive for downloading and storage files but after 128 hours of power on time, the drive has 832 load cycle counts which is quite high and I heard using a tool called wdidle3 to change the head parking timer will fix this but for my use, how long should I set the timer for?

 

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@Casterina How are you using your computer that you have so many LCC's at such few hours? Generally desktop workloads aren't problematic for short idle periods before parking. It's usually in server/NAS environments that head parking is an issue. 

 

Anyway, WD Reds park after 30 seconds (compared to WD Greens/Blue's (2tb+) which park at 8 seconds) iirc. 

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