My Western Digital has reached 106000 load/unload cycles in just 3 months of lifecycle. Considering the maximum lifecycle of the hard drive is 600000 load/unload cycles according to the product’s data sheet the full lifecycle of the device is expected to be only 20 months which considering the price of the drive seems pretty weak. As an end-user I would like to be able to choose which APM value is the right for me and my performance requirements. Also my wdidle value was set 3.0 seconds by default anyway changing or disabling it had no impact on the increase rate of the load/unload cycles.
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let the user decide what to do after buy the drive…
