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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #410

Comment 410 for bug 59695

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houstonbofh (leesharp) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

Dan Gilliam wrote:

> It's not all Ubuntu, of course. All the other distros are showing the
> same as I've hopped around a bit. I tried applying the various fixes
> that I've found, but I'm not seeing any difference in the increased load
> counts. Which is frustrating, because windows is obviously doing
> SOMETHING to control it. Question is, what, and how, to impliment this.

I have a laptop with this problem, but I didn't notice... Why? Bit
torrent and seeding distributions is an excellent patch! :) If you
never leave the hard drive alone, it never parks. If you FINALLY finish
loading the OS, and never wake up the hard drive, it never unparks. I
think the Ubuntu problem is because we finish loading, so it can park,
but wake every few seconds for random reasons and unpark. Vista, on the
other hand, will be an hour finishing booting...