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

Bart Samwel bart at samwel.tk
Fri Feb 13 13:31:08 UTC 2009


Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> It's ok for me that my disk saves power while on battery, but I cannot
> understand why once the read head is unloaded, every minute it is
> loaded again. If the PC is idle who is causing the load cycle?
> There might be a process that every minute accesses the disk, which is
> not ok (in my opinion)

Fact of life, unfortunately. It's hard to fix all software -- there's a 
lot of software out there. :-/

Cheers,
Bart

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