Timothy Murphy wrote:
There has been a recent scare posting on SlashDot, (quoting <https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html>) "Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive", suggesting that Ubuntu"may be dramatically shortening the life of your laptop's hard drive due to an aggressive power-saving feature".It wasn't clear to me if the action described is actually restricted to Ubuntu, or is common to all Linux distributions. Does it in fact affect Fedora?
This is a unnecessarily attention grabbing headline. The problem has been discussed in fedora-devel list in detail and Fedora weekly news report has provided a summary.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue107#head-10d9e6175a2dbef23ed071339345ccc747588683 Refer