[nisa]

As someone who inherited 240 24/7 running WD-Greens: http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/ works fine but disabling the timer has negative performance impact. 3000 seconds is fine through. But you need a complete powercycle before the changes take effect. No more parking. Does make a difference in longevity in my not very scientific opinion.

I can second the 200> bad blocks. Sometimes they still work fine after using badblocks -w a few times on them and raising the timer.

[teach]

Good to know. I JUST bought a green WD drive (still in transit from Amazon) so my future thanks you.