Comment 443 for bug 59695

I see this problem on the hard drive in my laptop as well.

Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 (Travelstar 5K160)

Under Ubuntu it increments the load_cycle_count at least every 9s or so.

I booted into Vista to attempt to see if it had the problem under it as well but I couldn't come up with anything conclusive since Vista would NEVER stop reading/writing my drive even though I was doing nothing on the machine. It was still reading/writing at 0.5-1MB/s according to resource monitor an hour after it had booted. I never actually use Vista (other than for firmware updates) so I may try doing a clean install using the information from http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=120228/ , and then see if I can get it to stop constantly writing to my drive with none of the vendor supplied bloatware installed.