WD intellipark disable

[Inet]

I plan to buy a 2TB HD used. I thought about WD Green, but I know that they often break down because of IntelliPark. If I disable this feature the HD lasts longer? Has anyone tried to disable this function? How to know if the disk is already spoiled by IntelliPark?
Thank you

 

[USAFRet]

I plan to buy a 2TB HD used. I thought about WD Green, but I know that they often break down because of IntelliPark. If I disable this feature the HD lasts longer? Has anyone tried to disable this function? How to know if the disk is already spoiled by IntelliPark?
Thank you

Why not just buy a drive without that feature.

 

[JWoody]

Ive never had an issue from ANY WD drive, ive had far more issues with POS Seagates

 

[USAFRet]

Ive never had an issue from ANY WD drive, ive had far more issues with POS Seagates

18 months ago I bought 2 WD Greens. 1 died in ~5 weeks. RMA, and they're both still doing fine.

 

[Inet]

I plan to buy a 2TB HD used. I thought about WD Green, but I know that they often break down because of IntelliPark. If I disable this feature the HD lasts longer? Has anyone tried to disable this function? How to know if the disk is already spoiled by IntelliPark?
Thank you

Why not just buy a drive without that feature.

Because the price difference is abissal. I think that only the WD Red do not have this function activated and I just like WD drives.

 

[Inet]

Ive never had an issue from ANY WD drive, ive had far more issues with POS Seagates

18 months ago I bought 2 WD Greens. 1 died in ~5 weeks. RMA, and they're both still doing fine.

Yes it's true that the current WD do not last as long as the old ones. I have one with 12 years old and still rolling.....
The IntelliPark function reduces the life of the hard drive. I've read that some people have disabled the function. I wonder if anyone has had this experience.

 

[USAFRet]

I plan to buy a 2TB HD used. I thought about WD Green, but I know that they often break down because of IntelliPark. If I disable this feature the HD lasts longer? Has anyone tried to disable this function? How to know if the disk is already spoiled by IntelliPark?
Thank you

Why not just buy a drive without that feature.

Because the price difference is abissal. I think that only the WD Red do not have this function activated and I just like WD drives.

I think only the Green has that feature.

 

[Inet]

No, Blue also.

 

[USAFRet]

No, Blue also.

Well...WD recently changed their labeling. 'Everything' is now 'Blue'
The 5400 is the old Green, the 7200RPM is the Blue, the 7200RPM in larger sizes is the Black.

There are a few links around on how to disable that:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hacking-wd-greens-and-reds-with-wdidle3-exe.18171/
http://www.overclock.net/t/1341649/wd-green-wd20earx-spin-down-disable-intellipark

 

[Inet]

Ok, thanks. I'm going to look at those links.