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miggols99

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 424

Should I be worried about my laptop hard drive?

I've heard stories like "Ubuntu kills your hard drive!" and similar things and I am wondering if I should be worried about my laptop hard drive. Has this problem been fixed, or is the lifetime of my laptop HDD ticking?

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Should I be worried about my laptop hard drive?

I don't think anything changed since then :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39258

Seems like it's not obvious what should be done (the workaround proposed can also kill your hard drive if your laptop is moved too brutally or even fall), and it also seems that it should be decided cases per cases, because it can change a lot from one laptop to another.

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: Should I be worried about my laptop hard drive?

You may have heard the comments about the asusEee with the flash memory drive.

There is some suggestion that ubuntu installed in the asusEee may ruin the flash memory drive in that machine.

This is caused by many writes to the flash drive in the asuseee pc when using ubuntu.

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Should I be worried about my laptop hard drive?

my opinion on this is the exact same as the shining's.

Its a damned if you do and a damned if you don't. There is no real solution, there is a happy medium with everything. To much and its overkill, too little and its not quite enough.

The only reason this is no a problem is because some published an article on it and its in the mainstream. But, this problem has always been there and HD manufactures have been balancing this from day one.