[ltp] Re: Q: HD active protection sys for Linux???

[Don Perley]

I see folks walking around with open thinkpads too... makes me cringe.

I also see a lot of folks with dead drives... mostly people who *don't* 
carry them around opened.  I think the major factor is not enough 
memory.  Everyone is running Notes which can be a real memory hog, as 
can the mandated system security products. If you are running the 
typical 256 MB it seems like every time you switch applications it takes 
5 minutes of memory swapping.  Norton AV scan takes maybe 4 hours.. 
mostly swapping with whatever work you are trying to do.  Waking up from 
suspend also seems to take more time swapping than restoring.  Anyhow, 
the disk is thrashing all day so it gets an early death.


Osho GG wrote:

> APS is not only useful when thinkpad is dropped. It is very useful when it is 
> being carried around while laptop is not suspended - which is it's primary 
> use.
> 
> Where I am at, there are literally hundreds of thinkpads (of many different 
> models, sizes, specs). If you ask support guys what is the #1 hardware 
> problem they get - they would say hard drive gone bad in thinkpads. The 
> reason is that everyone moves so often during day from one meeting to another 
> and not everyone bothers to even suspend to RAM. I have seen people walking 
> around with their laptop open holding it by the top edge of the LCD screen 
> dangling it like it was a little child cradle. I heard from our support guys 
> that IBM invented this APS only because they had too many bad hard drive 
> returned which were under warranty.