I have a Green Western Digital drive and I've heard there are "park" problems with the green drive.
As a general question, does it improve the use of a hard drive to partition it? And in particular, would it help ease the park problem of the green WD hard drives?
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1TB and larger. Partition or no?
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Re: 1TB and larger. Partition or no?
Haven't heard of partitioning a drive in years.
The head park thing is addressed with the wdidle utility. Do a search on wdidle for info / background
The head park thing is addressed with the wdidle utility. Do a search on wdidle for info / background
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Re: 1TB and larger. Partition or no?
Maybe people just haven't figured out a way to do it with a cell phone.kenZ71 wrote:Haven't heard of partitioning a drive in years. ....
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Re: 1TB and larger. Partition or no?
post the smart values of your drive.
partitioning on a wd green has no impact on the head parking.
partitioning on a wd green has no impact on the head parking.
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Re: 1TB and larger. Partition or no?
Thanksb0ssman wrote:post the smart values of your drive.
partitioning on a wd green has no impact on the head parking.