Re: WD doesn`t use disks with Linux - was Re: Re:Western DigitalGreenPower drives and Linux

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tuesday 2008-05-13 23:20, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>
>Well the answer was probably just from a first level support person so
>nothing one should get excited about.
>Anyway to the high Load_Cycle_Count; if I understood the technology
>correctly the WD GreenPower drives are exactly "Green" because they

I don't find it Green when I have to buy new disks because of
their detrimental parking technique.

>unload the heads on a plastic ramp (no landing zone!) quite often during

ramp or LZ, it's quite a force with which the head is parked.

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