Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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

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