You're probably right on that. I'll edit the description when i get to a computer. I've wanted to flesh that out anyway, re: ac vs battery behavior, so i'll kill two stoned birds when i edit that. ..er, two birds with one stone. 'course, someone else can edit it too, if they like. ..But i've got a rather clear picture of the issues, and don't mind editing it myself.
From: Tzvetan Mikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED] May be I am just nitpicking, but I think that four years life expectancy is _not_ reasonable at all. It is absurdly short (even ignoring the moral and environmental aspects of a consumerist economy :-) . I own as well as work with many computers and hard drivers older than four years, and all are in working order. Nobody sane would buy or use a product which is _designed_ to fail in four years. Perhaps the business model of the hard drive manufacturers relies on frequent HDD replacements, but it is not the OS-es place (let alone a free OS like Ubuntu) to re-infoirce that model. The life of a hard drive is not controlled by a single parameter, so I think there should be a safety margin of at least two in all known and controllable ones (unless the manufacturer specs already include that, in which case I retract my point). The hardware+OS combo should be designed to offer at least 10 years life (obviously, unless the laptop gets dropped) - otherwise, we all know very well, it is just going to break in two years and exactly when you most need it :-) regards, Tzvetan -- 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 direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- 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
