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November 5th, 2011, 8:47
Is there a way to disable Load/Unload cycle counter on system level or something like this?
Re: How to disable Load/Unload cycle counter?
November 5th, 2011, 9:14
Or as can I understand I need to disable APM. Is there a solution 4 this?
Re: How to disable Load/Unload cycle counter?
November 5th, 2011, 16:43
Have you tried hdparm? HDDScan?
In any case, your drive appears to be parking its heads every 3 minutes, which seems reasonable to me. In fact at the present rate it will be at least 5 years of 24/7 operation before your drive hits the SMART threshold for the Load/Unload Cycle Count.
In any case, your drive appears to be parking its heads every 3 minutes, which seems reasonable to me. In fact at the present rate it will be at least 5 years of 24/7 operation before your drive hits the SMART threshold for the Load/Unload Cycle Count.
Re: How to disable Load/Unload cycle counter?
November 5th, 2011, 17:10
fzabkar wrote:Have you tried hdparm? HDDScan?
No I don't. I hope this can be doing by Windows native tools. But I see I'm wrong.
Re: How to disable Load/Unload cycle counter?
November 5th, 2011, 18:56
In anyway I used HDDScan and seems to be it's works. Thank for advise.
Re: How to disable Load/Unload cycle counter?
November 5th, 2011, 19:52
QuietHDD is another application that can control APM and AAM:
http://sites.google.com/site/quiethdd/
hdparm can run from a command line, so it can autorun (and autoexit) during bootup.
"This directory contains binary packages of the Windows (2000, XP, 2003) version of hdparm":
http://hdparm-win32.dyndns.org/hdparm/
I don't know if the above binaries are suitable for Win 7.
http://sites.google.com/site/quiethdd/
hdparm can run from a command line, so it can autorun (and autoexit) during bootup.
"This directory contains binary packages of the Windows (2000, XP, 2003) version of hdparm":
http://hdparm-win32.dyndns.org/hdparm/
I don't know if the above binaries are suitable for Win 7.
Re: How to disable Load/Unload cycle counter?
November 6th, 2011, 12:44
One thing is to have the drive always on (so the load/unload counter doesn't increase), another thing is preventing it from increasing doing whatever you want with the drive 
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