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

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I recently started using the "Power Management gui" wattospm:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6362540&postcount=103
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=988309
It solved all my problems.

It comes with a deamon which loads on startup. So, the values for hdparm
etc it loads are not lost after reboot for example. I changed the "on
battery" and "on AC" hdparm parameters as suggested in this thread, and
now I have no more problems with increasing load/unload cycles.
Moreover, after playing a bit with the rest of the settings, now the
consumption of my lenovo t60 on battery is only 13.5W !!! -- as much as
it consumed running windows that came with it (that was before I
switched to ubuntu. After I did that the consumption never fell below
~18Watts).

I really hope people help this guy and start shipping this nice piece of
code with ubuntu!

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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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