Ubuntu
hdparm package

  1. Bug #969165
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 969165

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Lukáš Chmela (lukaschmela) wrote :

I have a WD7500BPVT-22HXZT1 and the Load/unload cycle count in disk utility increased from 12,000 to 13,000 within about an hour on battery!

hdparm -B doesn't have any effect on the frequency of parking of disk heads up until 254 which completely prevents the heads from parking, nor hdparm -S has any effect on the delay between individual parkings (if it should have any).

The drive is a Western Digital Scorpio Blue.