maor wrote: > its weird the you say that the situation is the same in windows yet some > people say windows does not park the heads at all. > > if it is true it means that a windows machine hard drive would not last > long before being destroyed by the high load/unload count. > > there are two options: > > 1) your hard drive can handle all this loading/unloading so its enabled > 2)some how results of your tests are screwed up. (this does not necessarily > mean you are doing something wrong) > > either way i dont know what to tell you. the only idea i have is > contacting your hard drive manufacturer and asking him but all this. > > imo this problem is not being fixed because no one is making a > consistent effort to test the situation on both Linux and windows. if > you want to put some effort in to it myself and other will try to offer > suggestions. > > maybe we can compile a list of people with models whose hard drives > where trashed because if this problem to put some pressure on having > someone who can actually commit code and is more experienced at solving > this kind of problems. > > Maor > > I installed Smartmontools for Windows , and surprising enough , when I run smartctl , it says my Hard disk doesn't support SMART ! It says it does , when I run it on Linux ....
-- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
