Linux tearing up your Harddrive? FUD?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/23 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 08:30 -0500, Chris wrote:
>> I keep on hearing about how this bug has never been fixed,
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695
>>
>> Is this just Linux FUD being spread around?  Or is this a "real" bug?
>
> The way I understand it, it's technically a hardware issue since some
> hard drive manufacturers set their hard drives to settings that wear
> them down faster and then you have to buy more hard drives more
> often...which I guess is good for them.  Some distros try to force the
> hard drive to do different things than what the hard drive is set to do
> to stop that from happening.  Ubuntu's not one of them.  It goes with
> trusting the manufacturer regarding what's best for the drive...just
> doesn't help when the manufacturer's getting it wrong.
>

It should be added that Windows ignores the hard drive manufacturer's
settings by default and provides very conservative settings of it's
own, which prolong drive life.

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Dotan Cohen

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