to Merton : Harddrive manufacturers seem to claim most harddrives can handle at least 600.000 Load_Cycles but this is probably an average under ideal circumstances. My harddrive started to die slowly when at a Load_Cycle_Count of 200.000.
Aiming for less than 200.000 Load_Cycles in three years means 180 Load_Cycles per day. If your Load_Cycle_Count doesn't increase too fast when on AC (let's say less than 180 per day or something in that order) then both your BIOS and your harddrive are not setting too aggressive power management defaults. Please don't use this bug report as a support tracker. If you have support questions you can ask them in one of the threads on ubuntuforums such as : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=591503 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=596602 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=589936 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=591564 -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
