Hello WD Forum, I got a new retail 5TB WD Elements external 3.5 drive and would like to set the sleep timer to a larger value to prevent wearing out the drive. I tried Smartware but the option ever appears for setting sleep. What are my options using the current WD tools available or command line…

Windows 7 Setting WD Elements Sleep Timeout

cat0w November 8, 2017, 2:30pm 2

You may want to look at this earlier topic about this problem.

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