Install idle3-tools by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install idle3-tools
Description:
change the idle3 timer of recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives
Idle3-tools provides a linux/unix utility that can disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives. . It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe proprietary utility, without the need to reboot in a DOS environment. . A power off/on cycle of the drive will still be mandatory for new settings to be taken into account. . Modern Western Digital "Green" Drives include the Intellipark feature that stops the disk when not in use. . Unfortunately, the default timer setting is not perfect on linux/unix systems, including many NAS, and leads to a dramatic increase of the Load Cycle Count value (SMART attribute #193). With the default timer setting, the drive will spin down *every eight seconds* if idle and this may get the spindle motor to burn out in a few months or so. . If you have a Western Digital EADS or EARS drive, please check you SMART information before it's too late by running the following command: . sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep "^193" . If the Load cycle count (which is in the last column) exceeds 1000, you're probably affected by the idle3 timer problem.
Homepage: http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
Version: 0.9.1-2
Section: universe/admin