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

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:52:42PM -0000, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

> On battery the cycle counts is more than 100 per hour, is this
> reasonable?

Is it reasonable:  no, but I don't think we can fix the problem of frequent
un-parking from any of the power management packages.

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