Loading ...Does Ubuntu Linux kill / shorten hard disk life?
I got lots of emails asking about Ubuntu Linux and hard disk issue. Does it really shorten hard disk life?
Noop.
Unfortunately, some news and blogs reported news wrongly. Ubuntu doesn't touch your hard drive power management settings by default. In almost all cases, it's more likely to be your BIOS or the firmware on your hard drive (source).
Check out this official bug report for more information. On a related note, always consider backing up hard disk / data on regular basis.
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Tags: bios, firmware, hard drive, management settings, power management, Ubuntu Linux ~ Last updated on: November 18, 2007
Please stop talking about this nonsense! There are several reasons why hard disks fails, but CERTAINLY not because of Load_Cycle_Count.
stop talking about nonsense? c’mon man, nonsense has GOT to be talked about… anything else would be less than ideal.
Im using Gutsy and got an issue with frequent disk I/O read with my harddrive, but never blamed the OS about it yet until I can find a concrete answers.
operating system does not damage the hd, but ext3 pretty much does.. less than ntfs though, but still… ever heard a hd click while using an ext3 partition? that’s what i’m talking about.