In itself, the idea is to save additional power and the read heads in order to to park not completely abstruse idea just must not happen at the expense of the life expectancy of a plate that has been primarily designed as a second drive and "backup" disk. - Aside from the annoying clicking but the parking operation, best every 8 seconds as soon as the firmware thinks it's just popular again Idle, you can quickly post a hefty number of parking cycles innhalb few months.
Yes, the Green Series is a true scoop monster, if you over draws its data: At least 15 MB / s in thousands, heterogeneous file packages, 70+ MB / s with mp3s and sometimes more than 100 MB / s and more if "smaller" Videos off are. - And that measured by external EATA connection. - Average creates the panel here with me reads of 120 MB / s and writing at times even a little more 140 MB / s (CrystalDiskMark).
As nice as that is, but also, with a lot of cache and a relatively low number of revolutions, "totparken" the read heads of course I will not let me be happy. - I do not know what got into WD so reinzuprogrammieren an aggressive timer there. - Although it is possible to drive with a tool to persuade to let this fad for several minutes to an hour entirely be the guide and some risks but when performing a firmware manipulation are nothing for ordinary petrol.
On Linux, I run the board did not even because there "IntelliPark" is performed even worse than under Windows.
Since the plate tinkers in an external housing for only occasional backup purposes, me this malicious feature does not matter, and a workaround, I do not even try, therefore.
Leistungstechnisch so easy 3 stars, the rest is again passing thought to the customer.
Who installs the boards in a server that they should not even consider, or turn off the Switch manually. - Otherwise, prefer to spend a little more money and to target a conservative Server Enterprise Disk series. - Or just tinkering around.
Addendum: Per "wdidle3" the board now but to animate, only every 5 minutes to park the heads. - An initial rating this does not change, since the engagement is at your own risk.
