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

[Brian Rogers]

If Ubuntu can do something, Ubuntu should do something. I agree with
that. However, just because a company puts out some buggy hardware, that
shouldn't force people with well-behaved hardware to lose power
management. And we certainly shouldn't harm the longevity of the drives
that were actually built right in order to patch up the drives that
weren't. Doing so, and protecting the manufacturers from their own
stupidity, would just be begging for more of the same.

Also, if it became a standard behavior for operating systems to disable
power management on drives, the manufacturers would just program their
new drives to ignore that command. That would be bad for a variety of
reasons, including the possibility that this problem still exists, but
now there's no workaround.

Remember, this affects ALL operating systems, Windows included. Only
Linux distributions have actually done something about it. But even
those Linuxes don't fix the problem for everyone and those people that
don't need the fix are worse off with it enabled.

Monitoring the load cycles and activating a workaround if they're
increasing too fast is a good idea. In fact, it's the first general,
workable solution I've seen anyone propose.

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
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