I think we can, too -- but this is triage, as far as I'm concerned. On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 11:57 +0000, Akshay Srinivasan wrote: > 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
