From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
John Fremlin <not@just.any.name>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
htejun@gmail.com, jim.kardach@intel.com
Subject: Re: AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:58:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4558B232.8080600@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455893E5.4010001@garzik.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-13 17:58 UTC|newest]
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2006-11-13 14:22 ` AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s) Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-13 15:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-13 16:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-11-13 17:58 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-11-13 22:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-14 3:43 ` HD head unloads (was: Re: AHCI power saving) Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-14 9:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-14 18:06 ` HD head unloads Mark Lord
2006-11-15 10:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-16 0:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-21 4:40 ` AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s) Tejun Heo
2006-11-21 11:32 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 16:11 ` Alan
2006-11-13 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-14 13:33 ` AHCI power saving John Fremlin
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