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It is designed to spin down after 10 minutes idle time, which is terrible for my usage frequency. Before buying any new parts or paying for repairs, try this. Sorry for the dashes, they have inputted a new application to edit bad words and needs to be updated, keeps bleeping the words starting with s. Apr 19, 2016 the music is still high energy djinspired and cranked up. If your hard drive doesnt spin up, doesnt show up in your system, reports wrong model name or. Possible settings range from values 1 through 127 which permit spin down, and values 128 through 254 which do not permit spin down. My book duo desktop raid storage user manual western digital.
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All useful data was backed up by booting the desktop with knoppix bootable linux. I thought id found the answer in the knowledge base, but it only tells how to remove it, by clicking on the icon that says, safely remove hardware, and. Culture there are plenty of vocabulary lists on the internet focused on new orleans own lingo, but kevin j. I am aware of spin down and i appreciate wd trying to save my my book.
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