> BTW they are designed to work > exclusively at AC, as they would otherwise deactivate the shock > protection of your laptop's harddrive when running on battery.
Worrying about "protecting" the laptop from dropping seems dubious. 1. I am just as likely to drop the laptop in AC power as in battery power 2. If I'm on battery power, there's no guarantee that when I drop it the head will happen to be parked. 3. Is it true that a hard drive's built-in drop protection is disabled when told not to park the heads? If it has an actual "drop protection" feature, it seems unlikely that it would ever be disabled. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
