My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:04:21 -0700, Brendan Perrine wrote:
>I have a computer that I have only had for a little more than 2 years
>that already has more than 10,000 powered on hours on two disks
>granted these are newer than pata disks

As already pointed out, HDDs suffer from spinning down and up,
not that much from usage. Those two SATA drives are from a home
computer that relatively often is turned off and on, IOW it's not up
for several hundred days, sometimes the HDDs spin down and up several
times a day. There's not really a difference to IDE drives.

[root at moonstudio weremouse]# smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       41986
[root at moonstudio weremouse]# smartctl -a /dev/sdb|grep Hours
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       33917
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       33917
[root at moonstudio weremouse]# uptime|cut -d, -f1
 00:50:53 up 8 days