{"id":4881,"date":"2010-04-09T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:38:05","slug":"free-parking-at-western-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/4881-free-parking-at-western-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Parking at Western Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Got a parking problem<\/a> with your Western Digital Green hard drive? \u00a0Our friends over at Accelerate Your Mac<\/a> (www.xlr8yourmac.com) have posted a great article on Using WDidle3 to disable Head Parking w\/Western Digital Green Hard Drives<\/a> on a Mac.<\/p>\n

It is thought among some circles that each time a hard drive’s head is parked, the total life cycle of that hard drive is shortened. \u00a0Just like people only get so many birthdays, hard drives only get so many head parks. For those of you that subscribe to this theory,\u00a0now can you extend the life of your Western Digital Green hard drive, which incidentally we carry at a\u00a0Great Value for a mere $137.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got a parking problem with your Western Digital Green hard drive? \u00a0Our friends over at Accelerate Your Mac (www.xlr8yourmac.com) have posted a great article on Using WDidle3 to disable Head Parking w\/Western Digital Green Hard Drives on a Mac. It is thought among some circles that each time a hard drive’s head is parked, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119,4,3766],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benchmarkingperformance","category-tech-tips","category-testing-lab"],"yoast_head":"\nNow Free Parking at Western Digital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our friends over at Accelerate Your Mac have posted a great article on Using WDidle3 to disable Head Parking w\/Western Digital Green Hard Drives on a Mac.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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