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Previously i have written about controlling the increment of load cycle count of my Samsung harddrive running Fedora and LMDE . In this post, i must admit i have included many redundant steps to tune the harddrive setting  to control Load_Cycle_Count. In this series, i am writing further about controlling the load cycle count of my external Seagate harddrive to ensure that the harddrive do not suffer an early death. In this first section, i am running OpenSUSE Leap 42.1  on my external Seagate harddrive. As this new hybrid consumer-enterprise distribution (i.e OpenSUSE Leap ) works like Fedora   (another RPM-based dristribution) , I created a systemd service named hdsilence.service to run at boot up. This service allows me to spin down my idling internal harddrive and keep my external harddrive spinning. To refresh our memory, we execute the command : ls /dev/disk/by-id/*   to retrieve the model and serial of all harddrives attached to our workstation. Below is the conte

I have written this article to consolidate what i have implemented to reduce the  Load_Cycle_Count of the hard disk. As Linux is known to be affected by the Advanced Power Management issue, i try (out of parnoia as my hard disk hit Load_Cycle_Count of 72000 in a short period of 4 months) to reduce the growth rate of the Load_Cycle_Count by implementing the steps below after reading pages of forum from  Fedora , Ubuntu , Arch and  Debian , to a lesser extent, Gentoo . In Fedora I implemented the following configuration in /etc/udisks2/"mydevice".conf: # See udisks(8) for the format of this file. [ATA] WriteCacheEnabled=true StandbyTimeout=253 I recommend that the name for "mydevice" to be altered to reflect the model and serial number of your harddisk using the following command: udisksctl status #The following step  (adding rc.local configuration)  may be obsolete and is optional for modern linux system running Systemd ;   I added rc.local con