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

[Akshay Srinivasan]

I finished writing a simple Shell script for monitoring the disk-head 
activity.Once started , it beeps if the number of parks exceed a preset 
limit , within the given interval of time.You need to have beep 
installed for it to work.

P.S : - Running smartctl usually brings the disk out of idle , so don't 
set the interval to a very small value.Also , the script needs to be run 
with sudo.
 


** Attachment added: "i.sh"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14084340/i.sh

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