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Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive

Posted by kdawson on from the saving-power-at-what-cost dept.

wwrmn writes "There's a debate going on over at bugs.launchpad.net on whether it's the Ubuntu, BIOS, hard-drive manufacturer, or pick-any-player's fault, but Ubuntu (and perhaps any OS) may be dramatically shortening the life of your laptop's hard drive due to an aggressive power-saving feature / acpi bug / OS configuration. Regardless of where the fault lies or how it's fixed, you might want to take some actions now to try to prevent the damage."

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  1. The year of linux... by GigaHurtsMyRobot · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ruined harddrives, that is.

  2. Re:So what's new? by TheBrutalTruth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Flamebait??? Who taught you to mod - G.W. Bush? Ubuntu fanboys are reeeeel sensitive, methinks.

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  3. Tags.. by Devv · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Tags if you replace all instances of Ubuntu with Vista:
    haha, defectivebydesign, MS, vistafailure, vista

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  4. Bullshit on your bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apparently anything that isn't a slobbery love fest on Linus's dick isn't enough for you. Too bad, this is the real world where nothing is perfect. Sorry, jerky.

  5. Re:no problem, really! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'll just buy another 4 hard drives with the money I saved not buying Vista!

    Whoever is responsible for modding this +5 Insightful should be taken out back and flogged. That's a blatent and uncalled for troll against MS if I ever saw one, and completely forgoes the fact that most of us are not going to be very happy if a hard drive with hundreds of gigs of data suddenly dies and can't be recovered - especially if it's your "main" drive.

  6. Haha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's defective by design! Oh wait we're talking about Linux? It has got to be the crummy hard drive manufacturers then, cause Linux code is invincible and would never do anything dangerous with your hardware...