Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:01:27 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s) |
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On Mon 2006-11-13 12:58:10, 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?
Not on my machine.
> Parking heads is more like just doing some extra (long) seeks. > Is this documented somewhere as being a life-shortening action?
I do not see any effects after applying that patch. Pavel
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