Windows 7 Setting WD Elements Sleep Timeout

[delsoft]

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 inputs?

Thanks in advance, Del

[cat0w]

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

WD Elements 5TB External Drive Not Going Into Sleep/Idle Mode

Hi, i have recently bought myself a new WD Elements 5TB external (WDBWLG0050HBK-UESN) in the past month. I have been running it without any issues until yesterday. I went out and put my Acer laptop (XP operating system) into sleep mode for about 6 hours. When i returned and tried to wake it up from sleep, into active mode… I pressed the power button… and nothing loaded for 10 minutes. I’ve put my laptop into sleep mode many a time, and never gave me any issues before. My problem is now that my…

[delsoft]

I had a look at the thread mentioned above and am still looking for a way to adjust the power management settings on the WD Elements drive hardware.

Is there a tool/command line that will allow updating firmware sleep time without opening the drive enclosure for WD Elements 5TB WBDWLG0050HBK-NESN? Clicking off every 8 seconds is going to wear the disk out fast otherwise. My plan is to use this for XBox One game storage.