Re: Laptop's HDD

2007-11-12 Thread Mark Lord
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote: The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of HDD dyi

Re: Laptop's HDD

2007-11-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote: The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of HDD

Re: Laptop's HDD

2007-11-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote: The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of HDD dyi

Re: Laptop's HDD

2007-11-09 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote: > The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads > that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it > can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of HDD dying > even earlier fo

Re: Laptop's HDD

2007-11-05 Thread Pádraig Brady
Alberto Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe some of you have been hearing lately about a problem with laptop's hard > disk drives being killed by *insert Linux distro here* [1] I asked about this on the fedora devel list: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-October/msg02324.html I