Hello everyone. I will display the spec’s of my PC down below. On November 3, 2024 I recently purchase a Western Digital Easy Store 20TB Hard Drive that I snagged for $299.99 from Best Buy. On the same day I decided to shuck the drive since Western Digital uses an external bridge connector from the SATA connector to the Micro USB Type-B. My plan was to have a high capacity drive inside my desktop for backup and media content on my personal rig. However, over 2 months from now I recently open HDD Tune Pro and realized an unwanted attention that is bugging me for a while. Mind you that the drive is brand new and I do not access the drive for a while.
I want to hear from the community if there is any power management setting that windows have configure or if I have to change any way in the BIOS.
PC Spec/
-AMD Ryzen 7 5800x (8c/16t)
-ASUS B550-F WI-FI Gaming Motherboard
-NVIDIA RTX 3060 TI
-Trident Z RGB G Skill 32GB (3600) 2x16
-Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD (Boot Drive)
-WD40EZAZ 4TB HDD (SMR)
-WD200EGDZ 20TB HDD White Label
-2x PNY CS900 1TB
-Seagate 2TB 2.5 inch HDD ST2000LM007 (Shucked from a Backup Plus)
-Seagate 500GB 2.5 inch Laptop HDD
Any recommendations please feel free to ask me.
It looks like you may be having power management issues with your WD 20TB drive. Here are a few things to check:
Power Settings:
- Windows Power Settings:
- Go to Control Panel > Power Options, and select High Performance.
- Under Change plan settings, click Change advanced power settings.
- Set Turn off hard disk after to Never or a suitable value.
- Disable USB selective suspend under USB settings.
- Device Manager:
- In Device Manager, right-click your WD 20TB drive under Disk Drives.
- Under Policies, enable Write caching for better performance.
- In the Power Management tab, uncheck Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
BIOS Settings:
- Disable any USB Power Saving settings in BIOS/UEFI.
- Check that the SATA configuration is set to AHCI mode for optimal performance.
Let me know if this helps or if you need further assistance.
Thank you for the feedback.
I have currently did some minor changes on Window’s Power Settings Option, most notable the USB selective suspend from enable to disable.
As for the Device Manager, the Write Caching is enable but the Power Management tab option is nowhere to be found. I believe this has to do with Window’s 10 & 11 power integration for easy of use for many hardware peripherals.
Lastly, my ASUS BIOS USB Power Saving was disable and the SATA configuration was set to AHCI. I won’t be doing RAID on my main computer.
After the changes were made on the Windows boot my WD 20TB was sitting on 867 Unsafe Shutdown. After a Bios change and a full proper shutdown & reboot, my WD 20TB is at 868. 
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