Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[Ryle]

Is there any way to disable the APM Setting permanently to stop the head parking and th chirping ?

Disabling APM solves the problem but with every cold boot the settings reset back to APM enabled.

I´ve tried CrystalDisk, hdat and Hitachi Feature Tools.

Maybe a firmware ?

[fzabkar]

It doesn't answer your question, but you could use hdparm (linux and Windows) to set the APM value to 255 (disabled).

Disable HDD APM - hdparm tool for Windows:
https://sites.google.com/site/disablehddapm/

The hdparm command line could be automatically invoked as part of the boot process.

An alternative solution is quietHDD:
http://sites.google.com/site/quiethdd/

[Ryle]

I know about  startup tools like these but that can´t be the solution for a new drive. Why is APM enabled in the first place ? It´s a Notebook Feature to prevent damage caused by shocks and save some battery...pretty useless on a 3,5" performance drive.

The noise is so annoying, so pleasy seagate release a firmware without APM or give us a possibility to disable it permanently without 3rd party apps.

[Hellraiser6]

+1

Also waiting firmware without APM.

[Markus71]

100% agree. I want that too!

[Markus71]

A short question: I installed a tool that disables APM, but it also disables it for my SSD. Could this be a problem with the SSD?

[Ryle]

I don´t think so. I thought SSDs have LPM not APM ?!

LPM saves some milliwatts if enabled, thats all.

[Svyat]

Yes, I want to disable that sh*t too! My system freezes for some miliseconds when it parks the heads, thats annoying me so much as the sound of its parking.

[Yohan123]

I have a two ST2000DM001 HDs and the chirping noise due to the APM/AAM issue from time to time are more than annoying. Please fix this ASAP, Seagate.

[jjxaker]

ST2000DM001 FW CC4C

Turn off APM!!!!!! I was soon to throw out the window this HDD!

I'm not going to install on your pc extra software!

I hope Seagate new firmware will!!!