I have a WD7500BPVT-22HXZT1 and the Load/unload cycle count in disk utility increased from 12,000 to 13,000 within about an hour on battery!
hdparm -B doesn't have any effect on the frequency of parking of disk heads up until 254 which completely prevents the heads from parking, nor hdparm -S has any effect on the delay between individual parkings (if it should have any). The drive is a Western Digital Scorpio Blue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969165 Title: hdparm: excessive Load_Cycle_Count with some WD "Intelli-Park" HDDs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/969165/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
