Dave-847

Nope, just 4TB drives. It worked just like the instructions said. I never really heard the crunch/chirp. I've seen that complaint often, but my hearing is not that great.

Yes, you are correct in pointing out that it is not a Seagate tool. (corrected post above) Do you have knowledge concerning numbers of drives where the count exceeds 1,000,000? Do you think taking steps to disable the advanced power management is a waste of time? I have 7 WD EARX Greens and 5 Seagate DM001 drives. All over 1,000,000 Also, to add information to my posting; The Seagate drives still increment the LCC count by 1 each time power is cycled even after disabling the advanced power management head parking "feature" WD drives don't seem to exhibit this behavior. The LCC count remains the same value regardless of server power down/up.

I was using the "Ignore current value". The way I read the alternate option was that it would permanently ignore all SMART errors on the drive. Can you confirm that is NOT the case? I can permanently ignore just the LCC count but any other SMART errors will still flag me? It turns out that the Seagate count increases by 1 each time the server is shutdown. The WD drives evidently don't do that. Thanks for your help.

I have numerous hard drives that have an LCC count higher than the moon, but no issues with the drives. The 2TB WD Green drives (WD20EARX and WD20EZRX) were put into my server first. Using WDIDLE3 I got the head parking issue under control and I ignored the Load Cycle Count SMART warning. That's been weeks ago and everything's worked fine. I recently put my Segate 4TB (ST4000DM001) into my pool and found I had a similar LCC issue. I got the drives to stop parking the heads and ignored the SMART warnings for those drives as well. It seems randomly, (although it may be tied to a reboot) the SMART warnings reoccur, but just for the Seagate drives. The WD drives do not regenerate the SMART error. Any ideas why this might be?

I know this topic is a little bit old, but there is some misinformation above. Seagate DOES have a tool Tools are available that work something similar to WDIDLE3. Instructions can be found here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68760 It works, although I couldn't get Win32 to boot on my computer, so I used RUFUS to create the bootable USB drive and just copied HDAT2 onto it. I don't know how important the LCC count is. I have 5 WD Green drives with counts over 1 million and 1 drive over 2 million. Also, I have 5 Seagate drives with counts well over 1 million. None of them have failed. I didn't know I had a problem until I recently built a WHS2011 server and put Stablebit Scanner on it. I had a WHS V1 server for the last 7 years and the SMART scanner on it never indicated there was a problem. Edit by Christopher (Drashna): In theory, the "Disk Control" option in StableBit Scanner is capable of doing this as well, and persistent after reboot. To do so: Right click on the disk in question Select "Disk Control" Uncheck "Advanced Power Management" Hit "Set". This should configure the drive to turn off the power management. However, please do keep in mind that the drive may report that it is still active, after closing and re-opening the window. The best way to confirm is to check to see if the head parking has quieted down.