Originally Posted By: badtlc
Your hard drive was still spinning unless you went into the disk manager and enabled powersaving to turn the hard drive off.
Unless it was mounted from the live Ubuntu media, I am not entirely sure it was ever spun up to begin with. ("I am not sure" are the operative words, here.) I just booted a laptop this morning with the 14.04 beta to see if the hardware played nicely with Ubuntu and I swear I did not hear the HDD spin up at any point.
Your hard drive was still spinning unless you went into the disk manager and enabled powersaving to turn the hard drive off.
Unless it was mounted from the live Ubuntu media, I am not entirely sure it was ever spun up to begin with. ("I am not sure" are the operative words, here.) I just booted a laptop this morning with the 14.04 beta to see if the hardware played nicely with Ubuntu and I swear I did not hear the HDD spin up at any point.