Every time that my WD external drive spins-down, Power-Off_Retract_Count increases

I’ve got a brand new WD D10 for about 15 days now, and I’m using it with my Linux machine.

To turn it off, I first umount the drive then I use udisksctl power-off /dev/xxx to safely remove the device. This is what I’m doing for all my drives for years and I have never had any problems.

Here is a refined output of smartctl for my WD Elements after two years of usage:

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       994
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1145
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       66
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   195   195   000    Old_age   Always       -       17638

And here is my WD D10 after 15 days:

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   016    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   131   131   054    Pre-fail  Offline      -       98
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   158   158   024    Pre-fail  Always       -       512 (Average 517)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       79
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   128   128   020    Pre-fail  Offline      -       18
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       81
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       71
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       95
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       95
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   150   150   000    Old_age   Always       -       40 (Min/Max 25/63)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

What I noticed was Power-Off_Retract_Count being larger than of Start_Stop_Count, that was when I paid a little bit more attention to the numbers and find out that each times that the drive spins-down Power-Off_Retract_Count is being increased.

Now I’m concerned about the health of my drive, Is there any reason for why this is happening or any way to prevent it?

_{Because of where I live it’s really hard for me to reach to Western Digital.}