Comments on: Does Ubuntu Linux kill / shorten hard disk life?

By: Jasonhaly

Jasonhaly — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:19:12 +0000

Ubuntu DOES kill the hard drive because it doesn’t touch power management settings. Every other OS like windows, takes care of the user because they prevent the BIOS from using aggressive power management. Ubuntu needs to learn to take the blame for not realizing that laptop manufacturers use aggressive power management.

Even if you don’t think Ubuntu should be blamed. You can’t argue the lack of power management under Ubuntu is what kills ubuntu.

i.e Under Ubuntu, BIOS kills hard drive.
under Windows, BIOS prevented from killing hard drive.

By: sheb

sheb — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:26:42 +0000

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.

By: pinoyskull

pinoyskull — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:54:12 +0000

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.

By: glenn

glenn — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:28:19 +0000

stop talking about nonsense? c’mon man, nonsense has GOT to be talked about… anything else would be less than ideal.

By: virens

virens — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:23:48 +0000

Please stop talking about this nonsense! There are several reasons why hard disks fails, but CERTAINLY not because of Load_Cycle_Count.