Comment 331 for bug 59695

well if what you say is true then thats a whole different ball game. still i find it hard to believe . make no mistake no one will be happier then me to see a big fat headline on slashdot that windows is also destroying people hard drive . i cant read Italian so tell me did they check for load/unload cycle count with smartct ? we already established that noise alone is not an indication.also no one said that on ac power the problem goes away (unless you apply the ugly fix).it is possible that this happens on windows and also on linux but maybe im missing something but i dont think it can happen only on windows.you say you tested with hdparm or do you mean smartctl and if not what is it exactly you tested?. if more people with dual boot can test properly we could get to the bottom of this.

to Matthias Dietrich: is your computer a OEM install? (maybe the manufacturer made some kind of tweak) did you use smartctl?