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induktor

Post subject: (C1) load cycle count insanely high,is this drive in danger?

Posted: October 26th, 2013, 19:48

Joined: March 17th, 2011, 18:50
Posts: 9
Location: united states

Hello
I just received a WD GREEN 1TB (WD10EARS) with 1.525.000 load cycle counts !!!! YIKES!!
I inmediately run wdidle3 and change from 8 to 180 seconds auto-parking
still... is this drive in danger?
other than that, the drive works fine, noise is normal, timming normal, everything looks the way EARS does

just wanted to know how much can i trust a disk with that number of load/unload cycles.
thank you!
indkt.

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Floyd

Post subject: Re: (C1) load cycle count insanely high,is this drive in dan

Posted: October 28th, 2013, 17:33

Joined: October 23rd, 2013, 18:42
Posts: 7
Location: Spain

That high number on load cycle counts is the result of APM enabled on your drive. You can disable it completely so your hdd heads don't park anymore while it is working.

Anyway, the drive is not in danger, that is only an energy saving feature of the drive.

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