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    HDD APM management?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cadette, Apr 18, 2013.

  1. cadette

    cadette Newbie

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    Have a new HP Envy 4, like it a lot but the hard drive head parking is causing an annoying click. Anyone know of a decent utility that can help change APM settings?
     
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    jotm Notebook Evangelist

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    Does it happen like every 10-20 seconds? It might be a Western Digital drive - they're known for this "feature". It was possible to disable the head parking or increase the time before parking, but it doesn't seem to work anymore on newer drives. I have a couple of older Scorpio Blue drives that I've disabled the parking on, but I could not do it on a newer Scorpio Black... It's designed to be like that.
     
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    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    Since head parking is inherent in modern drives and done automatically, I don't think there are any utilities to do it manually. Is the clicking loud?
     
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