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

[Grizzly]

Just to confirm, that some turion64 notebook on a fresh intrepid install
with a replacement SAMSUNG HM080GC drive that is so silent that I can't
hear its clicks (or the fan on that b***ch is too loud) even with the
commit=120 on mounting the ext3 root system ticks++ load cycles every
5secs (probably I need to set the "Kernel commit interval" or my xfs-
systems for /home and backup make the problems. When unpluggung AC, no
/proc/sys/vm/laptop-mode gets a nonzero value, however the screen
darkens.

As I have no "hdparm" to tick in "System-Services" I just use /etc/rc.config with the old familar hdpamr -B 254...)
The hdd is COOLER then

BTW: on hardy I got it fixed with reducing commit times etc. ppp.
Thought is was fixed on intrepid, now I see it's worse then used to
be...

Is this also on SATAs or only on last-generation IDEs?

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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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