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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #255

Comment 255 for bug 59695

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Bart Samwel (bart-samwel) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

Chris Jones wrote:
> Bart Samwel wrote:
>>> Whose opinion is that? I would argue that it is, indeed the operating
>>> system's place to save the user from themselves.
>> ...and especially w.r.t. hardware, I might add! The OS is supposed to be
>
> You are actually all talking about "saving" users from their hardware
> vendors, not themselves. They didn't set the APM behaviour.

ACK that, we are talking about a hardware problem here. And it's not
Ubuntu's fault that the hardware slowly self-destructs. IMO the hardware
vendors have fucked up royally here. Still, drivers in Linux are usually
full of hacks to work around fuckups by hardware vendors. It's not much
use pointing our fingers at the hardware vendors if the hardware is
already out there, we should just work around the quirks like we always
do...