Comment 247 for bug 59695

I thoroughly agree with mark thomas - what is being proposed here will override the defaults set by hardware manufacturers and OEMs. Perhaps it is helpful for some people, but it's a blanket decision that will change the behaviour of a lot of systems - behaviour that was chosen by the people who know the hardware best (ie the people who made and/or integrated it).

I'm not sure if prompting the user is a wise idea because many people will not understand what it means, and since we can't predictably scale back the power management they'll just say "ooh that sounds bad" and click to turn the power management off, which may not be a good thing. We also don't know what "increasing too fast" means, since different drives have different levels of robustness. My drive would have prompted me after about half a second, unless we'd written up a list of every drive ever (and future drives for at least the next 6 months) and knew that mine counts with a 40bit packed number or whatever it was.