Comment 54 for bug 607560

I basically did the same as John ^ - but I used Ramlog (http://www.tremende.com/ramlog/index.htm) - it basically mounts your /var/log as ramdisk and synchronizes the contents when you shut down / start your computer with /var/log.hdd. Playing around with "iotop -oPa" I was able to find some more apps which continuously wrote to my harddisk. This page also helped me a lot: http://info4admins.com/tips-to-spindown-your-hard-disk-in-debian-or-ubuntu/