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Ubuntu eats your laptop's hard-drive |
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Written by Danrok
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
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From the Inquirer: RUNNING your laptop on the user friendly Ubuntu Linux could shorten the life span of your hard-drive. According to the bugs forum at Launchpad, when you switch to battery power on an Ubuntu laptop the hard drive goes though a load cycle a minute.
A standard laptop can handle about a 600,000 cycles in its lifetime which means that you will need a new hard drive every 1.1 years. [More...] [Comments...]
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