Comment 752 for bug 59695
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime | #752 |
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:13:26PM -0000, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> - hard drives seem to be quite uncooperative: there might not be *any*
> good way to tell one "don't park any more often than X times an hour",
In fact there isn't. Parking is handled by the drive itself according to
the APM power management settings; we don't really have a good interface to
control parking more finely than that. The only other approach to reducing
the number of load cycles would be to reduce the frequency with which Ubuntu
requires *un*parking the drive; that's worth investigating, but is going to
take a while to get to the bottom of and is probably not something we would
change in existing releases via SRU unless the fixes were obvious and
straightforward.
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