Recently while browsing some forums I found some information that Western Digital Green Drives have a feature that parks the heads after 8 seconds of inactivity. Depending your use on your drive you can see the amount of time this is done each day can be significant. This can cause your HDD to die much sooner than anticipated.
The method used to alleviate this is to use WDIDLE3 provided from western digital to increase this idle time to something more realistic or disable it completely. I have disabled mine on a 1TB WD Green HDD successfully without any problems or loss of data(I was scared I would lose my data but it was fine). I am not responsible if you mess up your drive, just thought Id share what I learned. Google the wdidle3.exe and you will see people´s recommendations on what to do.
2 things you'll need to know you need to run this utility in DOS bootable disk and the drive must be connected via SATA or PATA. It will not work while connected via USB. There are some bootable CD ISO´s with this software on it already, google is your friend.
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