We are talking about wear and tear, not drives catching fire. It's expected that a drive will break eventually, and load cycling is just a (relatively new) way that drives can reach end of life.
However, the crux of this bug is that Ubuntu is, by default, causing _excessive_ wear and tear on drives. We can fix that by not causing that wear and tear. You can't stop a user from using their hardware, even if using it will wear it out eventually. Disabling APM disables a whole slew of features, not just head parking. Features I paid for, and that hard disk engineers spend their time developing. It's the proverbial hammer to this problem's loose screw, and will probably only succeed in reducing the disk's lifespan. You can't know what disabling APM disables for every drive ever made and ever to be made will do. Who knows (other than the manufacturer, whom we are overriding)? -B 254 might very well disable wear-levelling on next year's flash drives. Messing around with APM settings is not something an OS should be doing by default. -- 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
