Comment 800 for bug 59695

Unfortunately, the dirty fix of setting APM to 254 doesn't end this issue. My hard disk is WDC WD2500BEVT-75ZCT2 (Dell Studio 1555) and, on Ubuntu 11.04, it gets really hot on the default settings. (up to 50 C on idle and even 54 C when copy/pasting) The load_cycle_count doesn't seem to go up very fast though. Setting to, for example, 239 makes the temperature go lower but then the load_cycle_count increases like crazy. I mentioned the 239 value because I use it on Windows 7 by applying it by quietHDD and both the temperature and load_cycle_count problems are non-existent.
Isn't it affected anyhow by ext4 and how it uses the drive to read/write data? It seems to be using hdd all the time.