[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Mikko Ohtamaa]

I followed instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement

I had been using a new laptop for few days:

root at hereford:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda -d ata
...
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       16266

A very high number for such a short time! Load cycles were raising few
cycles per minute which was very very aggressive. Luckily ceg's
PowerManagement instructions provided a proper workaround and
Load_Cycle_Count stopped increasing.

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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