[plug] Ubuntu killed my drive!

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As someone who is about to have a go with Ubuntu, is this a common problem?

*worried look*

Ari

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Paul Antoine <paul at milleng.com.au> wrote:
> Sorry to hear that Brad.  My circa 1998 Vaio has had at least 3 hard drives
> - its thin design seems to kill them fast due to heat buildup.  Of course
> the head load/unload issue doesn't help :-)
>
> P.
>
> Brad Campbell wrote:
>>
>> Well, probably contributed anyway.
>>
>> My little Vaio had a major hard disk failure after roughly 2 years of
>> faithful service.
>> It was a general mechanical wear type of failure as the old freezer
>> allowed me to recover all of the data perfectly well, but at room
>> temperature it was just a "clickety click"..
>>
>> A quick post-mortem revealed over 1,200,000 head load/unload cycles where
>> the drive is rated to about 600,000.
>>
>> Drive duly replaced, I'll be implementing some of the recommended
>> workarounds listed in the various Ubuntu forums for overzealous power saving
>> modes for hard disks..
>> Example :
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/comments/81
>>
>> <grumble>..
>>
>> Brad
>
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