Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 Excessive head parking?

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Hi I just bought a new Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB hard drive and using it as a secondary drive D:\. So far it's a good drive and have absolutely no problems. The drive very quiet and has no bad sectors or anything like that. The performance of read and write speed is also really good.

One question is that I can hear clicks from it which and it is head parking. It has been doing that constantly after a couple of seconds on Idle (excessive head parking.)
I wanted to know whether this feature will cause problems such as wear and tear of the heads and bad sectors or it helps it to last longer.

I just want to know if excessive head parking is a good thing or a bad thing for this drive.


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ok you didn't say you had WD green till now

from https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Western-Digital-Green-vs-Red-Hard-Drives-602/

" Green drives are more "green" is due to a firmware tweak which makes the drive head park after only 8 seconds instead of the normal 300 seconds found on most other WD drives (including Reds).

When a hard drive is under normal operation, the data heads (which both read and write data to/from the platters) float just a few nanometers above the platter. The heads are so close to the platter - which is spinning at thousands of RPM - that they introduce a certain amount of drag which the motor has to work harder to overcome. Head parking is simply the act of moving the heads away from the platters...
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are you running Linux? usually windows wont command a drive to head park.

head parking is not that bad for it. its prob actually safer as it will help prevent head collisions on the platter if the drive experiences any sudden shocks to it.

Clicks form it is not very likely head parking though. if it is head parking it will be a single click. if its multi clicks its more likely clearing its ram buffer
 
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I am running Windows 7 64-bit SP1. Oh ok because I heard that it causes bad sectors on WD Caviar Green Drives. So the head parking is normal operation it clears the cache RAM buffer so that it performs more faster?

Also head parking helps protect the drive's head is that right?
 
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ok you didn't say you had WD green till now

from https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Western-Digital-Green-vs-Red-Hard-Drives-602/

" Green drives are more "green" is due to a firmware tweak which makes the drive head park after only 8 seconds instead of the normal 300 seconds found on most other WD drives (including Reds).

When a hard drive is under normal operation, the data heads (which both read and write data to/from the platters) float just a few nanometers above the platter. The heads are so close to the platter - which is spinning at thousands of RPM - that they introduce a certain amount of drag which the motor has to work harder to overcome. Head parking is simply the act of moving the heads away from the platters so that they no longer cause any drag. While this does result in the motor drawing a little less power, there are a few downsides to head parking.

The first issue with head parking is that the "landing zone" (where the heads rest while parked) is something that can physically wear out over time. The landing zone is usually rated for hundreds of thousands of uses, but every time the heads park you are one tiny step closer to the drive failing. In addition, it takes a tiny amount of time for the heads to return to a working position after they have been parked so there is a tiny (virtually imperceptible) drop in performance while the heads are unparked for use."

so yes green drives can wear out a little faster due to them parking heads every 8 sec and you cant control it as it is part of the firmware. I wouldn't use a green drive as a main drive, only as lower access storage drive like pictures and videos (which will read data constanly and therefore it wouldn't park while playing videos.
 
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