Comment 350 for bug 59695
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| Akshay Srinivasan (akshay.srinivasan) wrote Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime | #350 |
maor wrote:
> its weird the you say that the situation is the same in windows yet some
> people say windows does not park the heads at all.
>
> if it is true it means that a windows machine hard drive would not last
> long before being destroyed by the high load/unload count.
>
> there are two options:
>
> 1) your hard drive can handle all this loading/unloading so its enabled
> 2)some how results of your tests are screwed up. (this does not necessarily mean you are doing something wrong)
>
> either way i dont know what to tell you. the only idea i have is
> contacting your hard drive manufacturer and asking him but all this.
>
> imo this problem is not being fixed because no one is making a
> consistent effort to test the situation on both Linux and windows. if
> you want to put some effort in to it myself and other will try to offer
> suggestions.
>
> maybe we can compile a list of people with models whose hard drives
> where trashed because if this problem to put some pressure on having
> someone who can actually commit code and is more experienced at solving
> this kind of problems.
>
> Maor
>
>
I installed Smartmontools for Windows , and surprising enough , when I
run smartctl , it says my Hard disk doesn't support SMART ! It says it
does , when I run it on Linux ....