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    hdd head parking

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by marlanu, Aug 18, 2009.

  1. marlanu

    marlanu Notebook Enthusiast

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    as you all may have heard, when your laptop is idle the hdd makes a clicking sound . that means that it is parking its head/s to save power. the thing is that this will make it brake faster. wd hdds have like 300 000 cycles .


    How do you turn this feature off cause it's driving me insane ?
     
    marlanu, Aug 18, 2009
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  2. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    Replace the HDD with the fresh SSD disk , its your only hope , get one. :)
     
    kiriakost, Aug 21, 2009
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  3. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    You don't have to replace it with SSD.
    Just go Advance Power Options
    Change Hardware power plan
    Under "Turn off harddisk after" to Never
    Or you can Set under device manager under SATA controller see right click properties see if there are any other extra options.
     
    weinter, Aug 21, 2009
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  4. marlanu

    marlanu Notebook Enthusiast

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    i fixed it, and i didn't buy a new ssd drive. i just disabled the hard drives advanced power management ( not the one in control panel).
     
    marlanu, Aug 22, 2009
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  5. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    I've had my laptop on pretty much 24-7 for the 3 months* (might be longer) that I've had it. There have been 4067 load/unload cycles. At this rate (300000/1356) the hard drive will last 221 months or 18 years...
     
    namaiki, Aug 22, 2009
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  6. marlanu

    marlanu Notebook Enthusiast

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    in one year mine has had more than 163000 load/unload cycles..... it's been on almost non stop
     
    marlanu, Aug 22, 2009
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