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    Mervin Zuzarte is offline Senior Member
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    Default How to modify WD Scorpio Blue WD7500BPVT

    I would wish to share my knowledge with WD7500BPVT hard disk. It is a 750GB hard disk drive and I utilized it as outer backup for Mac with the utilize of enclosure. While utilizing, I have observed that it evers spin down later 8 seconds of inactivity. Later this whenever I test to access the hard disk drive, it takes 3 seconds to wake up from the spin down. It is really bothering. So I went to configure it utilizing wdidle3 tool but it did not help me much despite the successful message. But then I hanadled to perfect these issues utilizing WDIdleDisable and the tool CrystalDiskInfo.

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    Loughlan Schunker is offline Senior Member
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    I have too followed the similar thing in my case. WD7500BPVT disk attached with Sata port did not observe in WDIdleDisable tool functioning on windows XP because it was in an enclosure. So I then attached to the hard disk through Universal Serial Bus. This time the tool detects the examples and 01.01A01. There was a update alternatives. I clicked on it and some minutes after I acquired a message telling “Drive has been successfully updated".

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    I have a MyBook Studio II 2TB Firewire 800 and a MyBook Essential 500 GB Universal Serial Bus 2.0 attached to a Macbook Pro. Both go off later 10 minutes in the standby mode and now I find no way to keep this. WD offers itself no software with which it could be fix and the disk utility does not offer that option. It is all so well to save power, but does not suffer when my workflow. particularly when video editing and picture manipulation that harshly bothering.

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    I imagine, it is due to the capacitor furnished for the startup behavior from the stand-by. Furthermore, the interval of an Eco-chip is controlled, thus the intervention would not readily in build. An choice hard disk drive enclosure would be the just way, in my view.

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    Now I have neither an substitute nor a conversion to a dissimilar case before, but I would only wish to familiar how perfectly this 2-minute timeout does. I take that it can be controlled somewhere. I utilize this hard drive as a pure backup drive so that this tropuble is irrelevant. Since I have few other outer drives without the spin-down would not really matter. I am concerned however about the mystery as such, so searched the perfect cause of this spin-down.

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    The spin down of the inner disk is too much after in that of the outer drive. The outer drive begins with the spin down later about 5 minutes. I imagine that it can be controlled through utilizing few type of SATA commands. Otherwise I imagine that it is may be the default settings of the APM plate below 0x80 turn off the engine. Values just about parking the heads, 0xFE means never.

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    I too have Universal Serial Bus enclosure from Western Digital, but they have this pin-down trouble. Still with the WD or WD Parts Essentials I have not seen this effect before. Because you could do to find out what housing should be the WD.

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