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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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WD My Passport - Element , Ultra Etc USB Spindown

April 26th, 2020, 2:56

Hello,
I am using these quite extensively these days ,The Older 2TB Once That Are Shrek LT 4 Platters And 8 Heads ,The issue i Have In Windows 10 64 Bit Is That They Spin Down And Park Thier Heads Too Often .Is there a Western Digital utility or a method we ca stop these from doing this please .

Re: WD My Passport - Element , Ultra Etc USB Spindown

April 26th, 2020, 3:04

Hi,
This Software Does it - > https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/ ... _downloads .I have Disabled The Damn Thing ,Too many Times Loading And Unloading Of The Heads In not good for WD Drives ,We can easily have Head failures due to the fact that when these unpark the heads the heads can sometimes touch the platters rendering then unusable and it will not be a good task to do physical recovery on your own drive lolz :mrgreen:
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