[ltp] Head's up: new Lenovo BIOSes and HD APM (hdparm -B)

[Shem Multinymous]

On 5/31/06, Hamish Marson <hamish@travellingkiwi.com> wrote:
> 350k... My thinkpad is 2 years old... I figure if the drive will
> handle 600k that's about 3.5 years...

Some Hitachi drives (e.g, 7K60) have only 300K load/unload in their spec:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/7k60/7k60.htm

My 7K60 reports 50K cycles in 160 days of operation (some of which was
spent with HDD power saving off).

  Shem