- May 6, 2013
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Hello all,
I've been having issues while playing games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and World of Warcarft when these games are installed on my WD20EARX 2TB Green hard drive. I have these tiny freezes that frequently occur for an unknown reason, and it's quite annoying. It seems to happen when I load something, such as a sound file or an image (the map, a new icon, picking up an item, targeting another player, etc).
Now I've been searching around the internet for a solution, but haven't really found one yet. I've ran, however, into multiple threads about people complaining about WD Green HDs. They apparently have something called "Intellipark", which parks the heads to save energy. It does this every 8 seconds when the drive is inactive.
Now, I'm absolutely not sure if that could be causing my issue. I've seen people complain about very high load cycle counts caused by this parking, but when I check mine, it's only up to 188, which seems very low compared to what I've seen other people post.
Could my issue be related to Intellipark? And how can I tell my parking is set to every 8 seconds, because those 188 cycles seem surprisingly low?
Many thanks in advance for your reply!
I've been having issues while playing games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and World of Warcarft when these games are installed on my WD20EARX 2TB Green hard drive. I have these tiny freezes that frequently occur for an unknown reason, and it's quite annoying. It seems to happen when I load something, such as a sound file or an image (the map, a new icon, picking up an item, targeting another player, etc).
Now I've been searching around the internet for a solution, but haven't really found one yet. I've ran, however, into multiple threads about people complaining about WD Green HDs. They apparently have something called "Intellipark", which parks the heads to save energy. It does this every 8 seconds when the drive is inactive.
Now, I'm absolutely not sure if that could be causing my issue. I've seen people complain about very high load cycle counts caused by this parking, but when I check mine, it's only up to 188, which seems very low compared to what I've seen other people post.
Could my issue be related to Intellipark? And how can I tell my parking is set to every 8 seconds, because those 188 cycles seem surprisingly low?
Many thanks in advance for your reply!
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