Unfortunately, wdidle3 is a dos only program and therefore the computer must be booted in dos before the program can be executed. Western digital blue hdd 2tb vs seagate barracuda 2tb 7200rp by gantahemanth dec 10, 2015 7. Wd 2tb caviar green sata300 64mb wd20ears at great prices. I recommend these drives, but make sure you put wdidle3. Do not run wdidle3 d on the new western digital ezrx. I do support wd20ears hdd but read up on 2tb wd20ears hcl advanced format 4k sectors tler lcc wdidle3 issues first. I used the wdidle3 tool and set mine to 300 on an affected red drive purchased last month before the new tool can out wd5741 and then tried the update with the wd5741 and the response was no update is needed.
Western digital wd green 2tb intellipower 64mb sata 6gbs. Western digital my book essential 2tb removing the sata drive for my unraid server duration. How to set wdidle3 on wd green hds using a 2008 macpro using the wdidle3 application to set the idle timeout to disabled helps prevent the heads from parking excessively on wd drives. Optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.
But when i apply same command on a 1tb wd10eads, the response is the same as just wdidle. Western digital caviar green wd20earx hard disk 2tb. Alas, the timer was already disabled on the wd black 1tb, and now its also disabled on the wd green 2tb. Wdidle3 readily set or changed spindown intervals on the ears, but refused to set or change it for earx. The western digital caviar green 2tb aka the wd20ears is the current topshelf storage system in the manufacturers caviar green lineup of ecoconscious drives, sporting 2. My setup 2008 mac pro, windows 7 vm, four wd20ears green 2tb drives mounted in mac pro. One slightly odd thing i noticed the old wd20eurs 2tb drive showed 318 hd hour capacity, but thie 2tb replacement only shows 287 hd hours. I obviously want to use it inside the usb hdd enclosure, and will buy a second one of these drives in the future.
It might had been originated from wdcs support, but there is no way to download an official public version with relevant documentation. I wanted to report that i just bought four brand new wd green 2tb drives. Is there any possible way to get this drive working again so i can get at least some of the information off it. So it should be fine for storage, im thinking about getting a couple 2tb myself. Download the wdidle3 iso image and burn it to a cddvd.
Western digital caviar green 2 tb desktop hard drive wd20ears. Currently using w7 and the 2tb wd20ears is used to store all my movies and shows. You can easily fix high lcc counts by use of the wdidle3 tool. After buying 2 new 2tb western digital green hard drives and setting it up as part. I recently bought a wd20ears 2tb caviar green, and was partially. I think its been mentioned all over that it would only be a problem if it was used for your os drive. Using advanced format hard drives with windows home server. Wd is currently implementing advanced format technology on its wd caviar green line of products, beginning with the wd20ears, wd15ears, wd10ears, wd7500aars, wd6400aars and wd5000aars models.
Wd green drives no good for qnaps qnap nas community. A friend told me that these drives need to have their firmware updated, but i cant. Im ready to use it on my wd20ears hdd, but have been advised not to do so by people on other forums saying its not intended for use on my hdd model. I just purchased a vantec nexstar mx nst400mxs2 dual 3. Ive ran wdidle3 on all my western digital green drives to stop the. Boot the system with the hard drive to be updated to the medium where the update file was extracted to. Using wdidle3 to disable head parking on western digital. Using wdidle3 the wdidle3 utility will only work in a dos. Western digital 2tb ears caviar green hard drive hdd. This item western digital caviar green 2 tb desktop hard drive wd20ears old model wd blue 2tb pc hard drive 5400 rpm class, sata 6 gbs, 256 mb cache, 3. You can choose to download the wd red toolseems like it.
The head parking is set to 8 seconds and i cant turn it off. Ive ran wdidle3 on all my western digital green drives to stop the excessive llc count, around 30 drives up to this point. How to stop excessive load cycles on the western digital. Upgrade your storage space as well as daily productivity with the wd blue 2tb desktop hard disk drive ready to be the game changer you are looking for with a total storage capacity of 2tb, a 64mb cache and 5,400rpm rotational speed, this 3. I have three wd60ezrz drives manufactured september 1st 2016. Many tools are available with some use at your own risk note, but at least we all know they are official. Wd acronis trueimage, available as a free download on the wd support site, enables you.
Idle3tools provides a linuxunix utility that can disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer found on recent western digital hard disk drives. Wd blue 2tb desktop hard disk drive internal hdd, 3. The earx has been up for a few days and doesnt have the runaway diskpark issue, so far at least. Be sure of which drive you buy as there is a huge difference between this drive wd20ezrx, the wd20ears and the other one wd20eurs. I read this whole thread just to figure out what to do with my wd green wd20ezrx 2 tb drive which is a year old now. How to stop excessive load cycles on the western digital 2tb. Western digital caviar green wd20ears in usb enclosure. Wd 2tb 4tb my passport portable external hard drive usb 3. Wd caviar green 2tb sata 6gbps power saving internal hard drive oem wd red 2 tb 3. It is environmentfriendly due to its design which is leadfree and halogenfree materials.
If your product is not listed above, please visit the product page. I also found out, that wdidle3 runs on all wd drives. And also the wdidle3 workaround is not the better solution for these reasons. Sourceforge project page download files get support svn access. Western digital blue hdd 2tb vs seagate barracuda 2tb. Join our community just now to flow with the file wdidle3 and make our shared file collection even more complete and exciting. Wd caviar hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% making it possible. It would be great if you could answer them all, if. Wdidle3called wdidle for the remainder of this post is a dos program. The thd is now up and running with the new 10yearold 2tb drive, and all seems good. The only other difference is the wdidle3 has to be used in dos and the wd5741 is linux and windows based.
Anyone know if theres firmware updates for wd20earx. I picked up a set of 2 tb wd green drives wd20earx00pasb0 recently from a local liquidator they were manufactured in 2011 and all have under 330 hours total use time, so i want to use them for data storage. Upgrading your drive is easy wd acronis trueimage, available as a free download on the wd support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you dont have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Wdefrx red models 2014 wdezrz blue model 2017 old green series are now blue download. Using wdidle3 to disable head parking on western digital green. Western digital wd20earx 2tb caviar green quiet sata 6gbs.
Qnap ts869pro, 8x seagate 2tb, ext4 raid5 nas 2 testbed qnap ts559pro, 5x seagate 1tb, ext4 raid5 backup seagate backup plus 4tb usb3 external drive toshiba canvio 3tb usb3. It has been confirmed that some wd blues and wd blacks that are 2. The wd20ezrx seems to be the best of the lot, 64mb of cache is good and it is a fast drive for day to day work even though its green and not a 7200rpm. Raid and drive stable since build, no readwrite errors or performance issues. A consumer drive is apparently only good for a guaranteed 300k head parkings. Note i built a mini tent out of plastic sheeting over the drive before opening and.
I recently installed 4x wd30ezrx drives the sata3 version, the older ezrs sata2 versions work fine with wdidle3. Do not run wdidle3 d on the new western digital ezrx drives. Tried wdidle3 d on a new 2tb wd20ears, worked fine setting it to max timelimit. This included the caviar green 2tb wd20ears, the 3tb caviar green wd30ezrs, the 500gb scorpio black wd5000bekt, and the 750gb wd7500bpvt and 640gb scorpio blue notebook drives. So if you have wd reds you may want to read this and see if this applies to you. Western digital caviar green 2 tb desktop hard drive. Western digital 2tb ears caviar green hard drive hdd 2tb western digital wd20ears caviar green last call. I heard from a youtube poster that wdidle3 wont disable the count on wd20ears drives.
Instead of running wdidle3, i downloaded the hipmdipm utility. Western digital caviar green wd20ears in usb enclosure options posted in hardware, components and peripherals. Wd caviar green 2 tb desktop internal hard disk drive. Ok well i used ultimate boot cd to import wdidle3 into it, and created an iso so i can boot wdidle3 to work on a blank cdr. Meaning that if youve 2 wd drives connected itll alter the idle3 timer mode on both of them. But i am glad i finally got it to run that wd20ears was set to idle at 8 seconds. I added a wd20earx to my server which has multiple wd20ears, couldnt remember whether to run wdidle3, so tried. As capacity if the hard drive increases the power required to drive it also increases as well.
We even tested it on the 1tb scorpio blue inside our western digital tv live hub with positive results. In any case i would like to know the answers to the following questions. It uses less endangered earth materials and has no controversial elements. Optimal wdidle3 setting for wd20ears hard drives desktop. List of all wd firmware and software available for download. Western digital caviar green 2tb 7200rpm lipower sataii. Western digital wd green wd20ears 2tb 5400 rpm 64mb cache sata 3. Disablechange intellipark on wd drive using wdidle3.
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