On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:35 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB "green" harddisk has an design flaw: > The heads are parked after a much too short time. Or in other words: > The designed maximum of head-park-cycles are reached much too fast.
I have 2TB samsung drives which, by default, park heads very quickly. Using hdparm I changed power saving mode from "off" (which parks after a minute) to "254" and now the heads never park. (Different levels can give different results). Maybe your WD drive is similar.
