9/17/2023 0 Comments Disable idle timer windows 10![]() ![]() Sleep timer on the Passport drive is 10 minutes. This feature is built into WD Green desktop drives where the drive head parks every 8 seconds and also in the 2.5 inch laptop drives.Īs for 2> above, I think the spin down time (Sleep Timer) on both drives is more than 5 minutes. My primary goal is to prevent the head from parking on both drives. This is where the drive stops spinning (or slows down) when it is not accessed for some time. enter ‘Idle’ mode) after 10 minutes of inactivity. If disabling is not possible, I want to set the duration to a higher value (like 5 minutes) before the heads park.Ģ> I want both my external USB drives to spin down (i.e. This is what is causing the ‘Load Cycle Count’ value to increment by 1 after about 10-15 sesconds. I mixed up between ‘ the hard disk idling (spinning down) due to inactivity’ and ’ the drive heads parking to rest position few seconds after a read/write operation’.ġ> I want to DISABLE the ‘head parking feature’ on both these drives. The current value of 10 minutes is okay.Īfter reading my initial post again, it seems I was confused. ![]() There were other values like 15, 30, 90 minutes and ‘Never’. The Sleep Timer on my Passport drive is currently set to ‘10 minutes’ (this is the lowest permissible value for Sleep Timer). I followed the procedure you described above. My operating system is Windows/DOS (no Linux). My question is: How do I disable (or increase the value of) the Idle Timer on the 500 GB My Passport drive above? I haven’t tried it yet as I have to backup the data onto another drive before running this utility. ![]() I found a utility (WdIdleDisable_v6.zip) that can disable the Idle Timer on the WD Elements SE (and some other models as well). I also have a recent WD Elements SE 1 TB external USB portable drive with similar issue. Internal HDD Model : WDC WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0 USB Hard Drive : My Passport Essential 500 GB If that is not possible, even setting it to a higher value (like 5 minutes) will do. I would like to disable the Idle Timer altogether. CrystalDiskInfo reports the ‘Advanced Power Management’ (APM) value to be 60h (hex). The value increases after about 10-15 seconds of inactivity. ‘Load Cycle Count’ value is over 29,000 (2,752 Power On hours). I need to disable the Idle Timer on my external portable USB drive (details below). ![]()
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