Western digital my passport 1tb problems
It's an old argument for letting drives run all the time or not. My bigger worry about drives is stuff like dropping them, excessive vibration, water, bad luck with specific drive, power surges. Irony: Drive was working just fine - it was the damn SATA port part of the firmware!
#Western digital my passport 1tb problems serial#
Which of course prevented it from communicating over SATA so that you couldn't even update the firmware to a fixed version without some hacked serial cable and careful timing on a partially removed board and obscure commands over a terminal emulator program. Of course you could be unlucky and be one of the proud owners of the Seagates with the buggy firmware that would randomly corrupt the error log. Drives designed for home use will hopefully handle hundreds of if not 1000+ power cycles.
Drives designed for data centers are often killed in less than 50 power cycles.
THIS TOOL DOESN'T MODIFY YOUR APM SETTINGS, IT ONLY SHOW PERFORMANCE!Ĭlick to expand.Depends on the drive. It should shows a 80h value (every value over 80h is good)Ĩ If it shows a value inferior to 80h you have a sleepy drive, and you should check for helpĩ. Check your Advanced Power Management (APM) settingsħ. It will open a new window, select your HDDĦ. Select "Advanced Feature" > "AAM/APM Control"ĥ. Wii needs keep data transfer constant to avoid problems as longer loading times, music stream hiccups, etc.Ĥ. After some search in the WesternDigital forum I found a tool that disable it, it's called WDIdleDisable Tool.Īs you can see in the download page it shows a WD Elements SE Portable device, well my HDD is 1tb WD My Passport SE, so it shouldn't be problems of compatibility for people with My Passport. Ok, I've seen some people suffering from this bothersome spin down mode with their Western Digital HDD, well, I was once a "victim" of this annoying spin down. CHECK YOUR APM VALUE BEFORE USING THIS TOOL, INFO IN POINT 3