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

[Paganini]

Well, sadly, the new acpi-support has not fixed things for my X40. It
has a Hitachi drive, Model Number: HTC426040G9AT00. Even with the least
aggressive settings (-B 255 and -B 254) it still parks the heads more
than once a minute. As far as I can tell, the settings "took" -- hdparm
-I shows the correct APM level -- but the drive just ignores them.
Hitachi's disk tool doesn't support this drive, so I can't hand-edit the
firmware.

Is there any hope, or am I doomed to watch my basically new hard disk
chew itself up and die?

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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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