The drive is saving this change internally and is not forgetting it after a power-off.

Nothing i have tried works and nothing i found on google has helped either and if i cant turn APM off in Windows 10 i am going back to 7 and never using 10 again!Ĭlick to expand.On my WD drives, I could change this behavior with a 'wdidle3.exe' DOS command line tool that WD was providing. Heard that you could turn it off with Crystal Disk Info but all APM options are grey there so how get them to work How do i turn the damm APM off i tried looking in Windows settings and turned everything off and that does not help APM is still parking the head on my drives Long story short but i finally bought a second SSD and a copy of Windows 10 and installed it last weekend and other than a few problem i was able to fix it has been fineīUT! there is one thing i already absolutely HATE about Windows 10 and that is how the god damm APM (advanced power management) is non stop trying to park the heads on all my Seagate Ironwolf drives which is making the most annoying clicking sound which is not only driving me insane! its also going to break my $2000 worth of drives if it keeps doing this Before i begin i would like to state there is nothing wrong with any of my drives so dont say its a hardware problem its not its a software problem

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