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    Western Digital WD20EARS and read head parking every 8 seconds!?

    I've got a WD20EARS drive that I've been using for a little under a month, and it already has >18,000 load/unload cycles (using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit). I just used the utility (wdidle3) to change the "idle time before head park" from 8 seconds to 300 seconds. Some info that people were asking...
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    Clearing up the confusion about Advanced Format and Windows XP

    Hi, I've quickly read through most of the posts here. I've been using 1 WD10EARS for about 9 months, and I now have another one, and a WD20EARS, and I was just snooping around for the same general information, and ended up at this thread. I've tried Easeus Partition Manager. I had problems...