Re: Recurring disk activity
On 2015-06-20, Mayuresh <mayuresh@acm.org> wrote:
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> Laptop spec:
> http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-15-r200-Notebook-PC-series/7486447/model/7748035/document/c04576750/
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I had a head parking/unparking/Load_Cycle_Count problem on my desktop
machine (Western Digital Green Drive--known issue in linux) and
decided to disable the infamous idle3 timer entirely (caveat emptor).
http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
Your URL doesn't specify the brand/model of hard drive in your laptop.
It just says 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm.
Here's some ideas (some of which it looks like you've already tried):
Maybe you know all this already:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
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