-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ubuntu_demon wrote: > 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 >
WD gives three years of warranty on the power saving desktop drives and five years of warranty on the power saving enterprise drives. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHRupPadqpfxv/6LsRAg36AJ9zNZj4fSgWUMCtGdlaNhpON2pz2wCfc1Sg NhX0Z/5XC5iFGSjxc1QEDyk= =RoQV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
