I've been looking at this bug as well and peeked at my drive stats. The mentioned Load_Cycle_Count stands at 355,884 on my laptop after I observed it increase by over 150 counts in just a few minutes on battery power.
Can anyone confirm if there is a correlation between this count and the lifespan of a hard drive? I'm a little bit concerned my drive may be approaching retirement earlier than I'd hoped, especially as my current one is a replacement for an identical Samsung model that lasted only a few months from new, also running Ubuntu. Tom On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:48 +0000, Dougie Richardson wrote: > Hi all, > > While investigating the interesting arguments concerning bug #59695, I > noted that a lot of the argument centres around the assumption that > Windows bypasses BIOS settings and configures drive access with so > called "sane" values. > > Well I thought I'd check this out and although I'm still in doubt as to > the validity of whether increased time spent in the hard disk landing > zone is significant in reducing lifespan - I can confirm one myth as > debunked: Windows Vista does not alter the load unload cycle parameters. > > I've put up a quick piece on my blog (http://blog.lynxworks.eu/) but > suffice to say that after disabling in Ubuntu, after 15 minutes there is > no increase in load unload cycles. Reboot into Windows and after 15 > minutes reboot to Ubuntu and surprisingly the cycles have increased by > ten. > > Cheers, > > Dougie Richardson > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
