I just purchased one of the new "Green" WD 500GB drives. This is a desktop, 3.5" SATA drive.
It is the first desktop drive that I found which monitors 193 Load / Unload cycles. After less than a week of use, I am already up to over 5500 load cycles. I can hear it clicking as well, once or twice per minute. I try the hdparm command as root: #hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda and it comes back with: /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error I'm thinking the load cycle increasing is similar to the laptop version - since it is based on power savings. Can anyone else confirm this? Drive model #: WD5000AACS Is there a fix for the hdparm error? Am I doing something wrong? -- 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
