Jeff Garzik wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
How does it shorten its life?
Parks your hard drive heads many thousands of times more often than it
does without the aggressive PM features.
Spinning-down would definitely shorten the drive lifespan. Does it do that?
Parking heads is more like just doing some extra (long) seeks.
Is this documented somewhere as being a life-shortening action?
Cheers
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