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  1. Bug #399978
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 399978

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eggbert (c0de-munkey) wrote :

I am also experiencing this on an Acer Aspire 57347 with a WD2500BEVT hdd. I am dual booting with win7, and under Ubuntu the drive is around 5 - 7 degrees hotter.

I should also mention that under either OS this drive suffers from the parking/clicking issue, although it seems slightly worse under ubuntu. For each click there is one load cycle incremented in the SMART data.

Actually, I returned the first laptop I had and exchanged it for another because of this clicking issue... I thought the drive might be bad, but the second laptop (same model) clicks as well. Apparently WD laptop drives have EXTREMLY aggressive APM.

Please fix the heat issue, I'd like to use Ubuntu on this laptop!