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Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive
launchpad.net — From Slashdot:"There's a debate going on over at bugs.launchpad.net on whether it's the Ubuntu, BIOS, hard-drive manufacturer, or pick-any-player's fault, but Ubuntu (and perhaps any OS) may be dramatically shortening the life of your laptop's hard drive due to an aggressive power-saving feature / acpi bug / OS configuration."
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- ePlus, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5To find out how many cycles your laptop has done do this:
(You need to have SMART enabled in the BIOS first before running the command to actually analyse your HDD)
sudo apt-get install smartmontool
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count
To stop it do this:
sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
Add sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda before "exit 0"
More info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=596602
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/ ... (Slashdots' Comments) - schestowitz, on 10/31/2007, -1/+9Old news. The fix is trivial.
- Mejogid, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4Not only that, but it has been stated multiple times that this is due to hardware settings which Ubuntu is resepecting rather than Ubuntu itself, unless a user has specifically enabled power saving behavior in the command line (before which they would have presumably found out enough about it to realise that starting and stopping components can shorten their life).
- trmanco, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Does this bug also affect desktop hard drives??
- openguru, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2No.
- ludwik, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_is_NOT_causi ...
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