That might be true , but honestly my laptop gets too warm to keep it on my lap when running linux.If Windows can somehow reduce Hard disk temperature without parking heads madly , I think we can too.
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 07:30 +0000, CTenorman wrote: > I've been doing some research on this its essue, and the Debian fix (hdparm > of 254 I believe) would seem to have a lot going for it. Google, in a > massive study on hard drives, says > > "One of our key findings has been the lack of a consistent pattern of > higher failure rates for higher temperature drives or for those drives > at higher utilization levels. Such correlations have been repeatedly > highlighted by previous studies, but we are unable to confirm them by > observing our population." > (http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf) > > So higher temperatures and longer running time may not really be > affecting our drives hardly at all. Also, if the drives are forced to > write very frequently because ext3, there's a very small chance our > drives won't be engaged in the event of a fall. I doubt a user would > blame Ubuntu if they dropped their laptop and their hard drive was > damaged. They WOULD blame Ubuntu if it failed years before it would have > under Windows. > > So given that temperature and runtime don't seem to affect the drives > significantly, and the drives are engaged nearly all the time, thus > negating any benefit of parking, is there any reason not to run at 254 > or 255 depending? > -- 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 the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
