Review on 💾 WD Blue 2TB WD20EZAZ Hard Drive by Western Digital by Adam Walendzik ᠌

Name: 💾 WD Blue 2TB WD20EZAZ Hard Drive by Western Digital
Item: 💾 WD Blue 2TB WD20EZAZ Hard Drive by Western Digital
Rating: 3

July 04, 2023

Expectations were not met, average quality.

Not only is it an SMR disk, it also parks heads every 8 seconds. On my desktop, the Load/unload cyclecomunt (193 or 0xC1) SMART attribute increased by about 150 every day. I tried everything: hdparm, Victoria, wdidle3, wd5741 - nothing works with this disk. APM is not regulated, nor is wd idle3 timer. As a result, I wrote down a script that overwrites a file on this disk every 7 seconds. Here's a choice:

Batch ("batch file",. bat)

PowerShell

To make the scriptrun automatically, we are looking for something like "start batch script at windows startup".

If anyone knows a better method, please share.

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