I have 2.5" drives in my desktop box.
there's no need to park heads every time drive is idle because there will be no accidental falls nor g-forces.
parking/returning of hdd heads is audiable and there's (I guess) some performance hit.
is it possible to "instruct" drive not to park heads every time it's idle?
[SOLVED] disabling head uloading?
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[SOLVED] disabling head uloading?
Last edited by trxman on Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
guess I've found the way to stop incrising
and, it's:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-79055.html
http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=54
http://paul.luon.net/journal/hacking/BrokenHDDs.html
any info how to do that in windows?
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193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 14343
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hdparm -B254 /dev/sda
http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=54
http://paul.luon.net/journal/hacking/BrokenHDDs.html
any info how to do that in windows?