[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Chris Cheney]

I see this problem on the hard drive in my laptop as well.

Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 (Travelstar 5K160)

Under Ubuntu it increments the load_cycle_count at least every 9s or so.

I booted into Vista to attempt to see if it had the problem under it as
well but I couldn't come up with anything conclusive since Vista would
NEVER stop reading/writing my drive even though I was doing nothing on
the machine. It was still reading/writing at 0.5-1MB/s according to
resource monitor an hour after it had booted. I never actually use Vista
(other than for firmware updates) so I may try doing a clean install
using the information from
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=120228/ , and then see
if I can get it to stop constantly writing to my drive with none of the
vendor supplied bloatware installed.

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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