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Which is more than enough for 99% of people but they need some way to get money from the suckers

I downloaded NOSLEEPHD and every 5 minutes it writes to the drive, the drive no longer shuts down and is at 45C so for now problem solved, thanks for the help

Problem it keeps resetting without power cycling the PC and whats worse is my power on count was 20 a few hours ago, now it is 24, it is starting and stopping Even without system reboot It keeps going back to 128 then shuts down after awhile, looks like my only options are leave it as is and if...

Looks like in device manager under power management, allow this computer to turn off device was checked even though in power optiionsi had it set to never turn off hard drives, this is why the APM settings are not staying the way I set it seems

The my book i have was great for 5 years. Only after dropping it had it given me problems. This drive I bought is an elements. If I do send this back what is a good program to wipe the drive

No problem, appreciate the help. I connected the MY book drive I had damaged and it retained the APM settings but the elements does not. I am beginning to regret my purchase but the mybook did not have a 10TB option anymore. I should have bought an internal drive and replaced the 1TB secondary...

So i wake up today and check my drive and APM is on and at 128, this is baffling because i had it turned off. how does it just turn itself back on

Thanks for the info

Whats is worse for a drive temps around 50 or many power ups and downs a day?

Is 52 an ok temp to let it idle at? I want this drive to last for at least 5 years like the previous which idled at around 45 and always on

Never used it for APM before. Whats does very idle mean ? isn't it either idle or not

I dropped my External drive I had for 5 years and now gives me errors so I had to buy a new one, A WD elements 10tb. This has APM. I have in windows power settings to never turn off hard disks but this HD ignores that with APM on apparently. I will use this drive often so I do not want hundreds...

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No, all good now, although just as that problem was resolved I dropped my external hard drive a few days ago and now getting uncorrectable sector counts so thanks to my clumsiness had to just buy a new drive

Removed it completely