Certain desktop drives are also affected. Western Digital is using rapid parking as a selling point of it's green drives. They give three years of warranty but apparently they haven't tested these drives with a Linux desktop.
Western Digital's power saving desktop drives (WD Caviar GP) such as WD10EACS can handle 300.000 Load_Cycles http://westerndigital.com/en/library/sata/2879-701229.pdf Western Digital's power saving enterprise drives (WD RE2-GP) such as WD1000FYPS can handle 600.00 Load_Cycles http://westerndigital.com/en/library/sata/2879-701236.pdf chrischan has a WD10EACS and reported a load cycle count is 5678 after 86 hours. This means he is seeing 66 Load_Cycles per hour and his drive will reach it's specification (300.000) after 4544 hours of usage which is after 379 days http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3719777&postcount=368 -- 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
