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Hello
Anyone that has an older model Western Digital 1TB Blue EZEX for many years should look at their Load Cycle Counts, however it's not (even close) that terrible as it was with the Green scandal a few years ago, still the difference bettween others is staggering, I have used this one since summer 2014 and it has over 20 thousand LLCs, many many times over the counts of much older and much more busy/active HDDs.
Here's the accused EZEX-75M2NA0:
(I guess 20 thousand isn't that much but i panicked when I saw that compared to the rest)
PS: The whole eco-friendly thing makes me a headache anyway, since, global warming is a hoax, now we have to suffer in every aspect of our lives, in US coal power plants are being closed down while China is allowed to open new ones all the time. I bought this "extra headache and low reliability with lesser power bill based on quack science" model just because it's for archival-only and because of price/space ratio, everything else is up to the max, all mobo power saving features disabled cause I learned they usually cause instability, might not be as harsh as in older days but still, I'm not taking any chances. And if we're here, also this.
Here's the newer 2015 EZEX-00BN5A0:
Here's a older black 1TB FAEX:
Here's an old 2008-ish 500GB AAKS model:
I came to this "discovery" (im sure NAS people probably know it and oh well) because I wanted to use the WDIDLE3 timer correction utility for my data-archive drive which is WD20EZRX which is the newest Green model and I haven't found much about it on the web if it's possible, one thread does say it's not recommended to disable it so I obviously went with the safe route and set it to /S300 which is for 300 seconds and it worked, however I can't guarantee you that for all other revisions of this newer greens other than the extact model in the screenshots.
What's more, the newer WD10EZEX have this fixed, it's disabled on WD10EZEX-00BN5A0. I didn't test for FZEX black and AAKS blue but i'm sure it's also disabled from the LCC counts.
Still, this newer Greens still have 8 seconds, so they probably fixed the problem in another place, but I'm definitely not going to just rely on that. Maybe it was an OS fix, I wasn't around the topic when that was going on so I'm only like finding about the background now.
I also made this thread for others who might not know they can use WDIDLE3 utility to modify the timer on other HDDs not just the ones specified by WD and Greens. (except REDs where a different update utility is required) Didn't found a lot of talk on the web if it's possible or not.
Preferrably to fill the spare CD you can use http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Ultimate Boot CD and navigate to HDD > Device Info And Management > WDIDLE3 Utility 1.05
You just wait without pressing any keys until the version info about WDIDLE3 appears
Then you just type> wdidle3 /r to check --- or> wdidle3 /s300 to set the timer to 5 min
When booting, only have the HDD you wish to check/modify connected to the mobo!
This is the example of my successful set to 300 seconds on the Green AND on the EZEX Blue so this is a really happy ending.
I still don't want to try disabling it completely, as reported here better not use the disable option.
And the reason I'm using blue's is because blacks got bad reviews this time around, the weight is exactly the same, some blacks performed worse, +3 years of warranty for like 40% more price, no thanks, what were they thinking.
Anyone that has an older model Western Digital 1TB Blue EZEX for many years should look at their Load Cycle Counts, however it's not (even close) that terrible as it was with the Green scandal a few years ago, still the difference bettween others is staggering, I have used this one since summer 2014 and it has over 20 thousand LLCs, many many times over the counts of much older and much more busy/active HDDs.
Here's the accused EZEX-75M2NA0:
(I guess 20 thousand isn't that much but i panicked when I saw that compared to the rest)
PS: The whole eco-friendly thing makes me a headache anyway, since, global warming is a hoax, now we have to suffer in every aspect of our lives, in US coal power plants are being closed down while China is allowed to open new ones all the time. I bought this "extra headache and low reliability with lesser power bill based on quack science" model just because it's for archival-only and because of price/space ratio, everything else is up to the max, all mobo power saving features disabled cause I learned they usually cause instability, might not be as harsh as in older days but still, I'm not taking any chances. And if we're here, also this.
Here's the newer 2015 EZEX-00BN5A0:
Here's a older black 1TB FAEX:
Here's an old 2008-ish 500GB AAKS model:
I came to this "discovery" (im sure NAS people probably know it and oh well) because I wanted to use the WDIDLE3 timer correction utility for my data-archive drive which is WD20EZRX which is the newest Green model and I haven't found much about it on the web if it's possible, one thread does say it's not recommended to disable it so I obviously went with the safe route and set it to /S300 which is for 300 seconds and it worked, however I can't guarantee you that for all other revisions of this newer greens other than the extact model in the screenshots.
What's more, the newer WD10EZEX have this fixed, it's disabled on WD10EZEX-00BN5A0. I didn't test for FZEX black and AAKS blue but i'm sure it's also disabled from the LCC counts.
Still, this newer Greens still have 8 seconds, so they probably fixed the problem in another place, but I'm definitely not going to just rely on that. Maybe it was an OS fix, I wasn't around the topic when that was going on so I'm only like finding about the background now.
I also made this thread for others who might not know they can use WDIDLE3 utility to modify the timer on other HDDs not just the ones specified by WD and Greens. (except REDs where a different update utility is required) Didn't found a lot of talk on the web if it's possible or not.
Preferrably to fill the spare CD you can use http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Ultimate Boot CD and navigate to HDD > Device Info And Management > WDIDLE3 Utility 1.05
You just wait without pressing any keys until the version info about WDIDLE3 appears
Then you just type> wdidle3 /r to check --- or> wdidle3 /s300 to set the timer to 5 min
When booting, only have the HDD you wish to check/modify connected to the mobo!
This is the example of my successful set to 300 seconds on the Green AND on the EZEX Blue so this is a really happy ending.
I still don't want to try disabling it completely, as reported here better not use the disable option.
And the reason I'm using blue's is because blacks got bad reviews this time around, the weight is exactly the same, some blacks performed worse, +3 years of warranty for like 40% more price, no thanks, what were they thinking.
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