how do I determine Load Cycle Counts

[backtothefuture]

How do I determine the LCC of my hard drives?

Currently got a couple of WD Greens and their apparent high LCC seem to be all over the internet...just want to take stock of where mine are at!

thanks

 

[backtothefuture]

ok actually looks like my NAS has the option..

I clicked on the S.M.A.R.T. info tab for each HDD and under RAW data it shows LCC as 11,917 for the 1st HDD and 12,126 for the second HDD...

both are approx 10 days old and both are 2TB WD20EARs

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[backtothefuture]

thanks for the above link, saved me a great deal of hassle (spent much of yesterday evening trying to create a bootable USB, CD etc but couldn't get WDIDLE3 on it!)

just ran the utilitiy and it said that 'idle3 timer enabled and set to 5.0 minutes'

however the last message displayed on the screen was VSCSENDKEY CMD ERROR ....

not sure what the above means

is it safe to say that the timer is enabled?

EDIT: the guide above states to set SATA mode to IDE under Bios, however I don't have that option. My SATA ports are listed under IDE devices and the only option is to enable or disable the ports. Have an Asus A8N Sli Deluxe nForce4 mobo.