I just found this bugreport, and I took a look at my stats. My disk (60GB Travelstar 7K100) accumulated ca. 300000 Load Cycle Counts over the last 3 Years. Applying Michaels settings decreased the growth rate massively.
One idea why disks tend to sleep longer on a Windows System: NTFS does not have an atime record which is updated on every read operation. I routinely mount my partitions with "noatime", to let them sleep longer. And the Windows IO scheduler might by default keep disk writes cached longer, until a read operation has to wake up the disk anyways. -- default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks 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
