Mark Lord wrote:
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?
I wrote this in the other thread but writing here too for documentation
purpose.
* HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H30N locks up completely on slumber. Physical
power removal and reapply is the only to recover it.
* Some WD raptors spin down (yeap, that's right, it spins down) on slumber.
Wonderful world of ATA. :-P
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tejun
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