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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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