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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #768

Comment 768 for bug 59695

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

It's ok for me that my disk saves power while on battery, but I cannot
understand why once the read head is unloaded, every minute it is
loaded again. If the PC is idle who is causing the load cycle?
There might be a process that every minute accesses the disk, which is
not ok (in my opinion)