From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
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 23:01:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061113220127.GA1704@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4558B232.8080600@rtr.ca>
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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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
2006-11-13 22:01 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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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