Re: Laptop's HDD

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote:

> The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads 
> that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it 
> can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda")  . There are reports of HDD dying 
> even earlier for this problem [2]

 I use:

# hdparm -B 255 /dev/hda

to get rid of the problem with an ATA disk where I do not care that much 
about power consumption.  I do not know what the equivalent for a SATA 
disk would be, but chances are it will be easier to track it down with the 
reference above.

  Maciej
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