Just wondering if I should go ahead with the wdidle3.exe trick

try and see if it works…

it is NOT suppose to be used on Green drives though. there is no support from WD when using it on a  Green drive.

I tried it on a older version Green same as my user name and it did work but the settings is suppose to be within a range on many drives so i would highly advise running the command to check and validate what it was actually changed to AFTER you make the change of the setting because the results may not be what your after if you try and set it out of range… double check what happened !

but you have a newer generation of Green drive so i’m not sure if the tool will work for you.