Re: AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s)

Andi Kleen
2006-11-13T15:38:05Z

> Therein lies a key problem. Turning on all of AHCI's aggressive power
> management features DOES save a lot of power. But at the same time, it
> shortens the life of your hard drive, particularly hard drives that are
> really PATA, but have a PATA<->SATA bridge glued on the drive to enable
> connection to SATA controllers.

How does it shorten its life?

-Andi