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Turning on and off harddisk

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MTXR

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I have the Power Saving feature on my hard disk set to turning it off ater 2 hours of no activity for the past 6 months. I am wondering if this is a good thing or not....


I usually hear it power up a lot everytime i use them, but i am wondering if this is shortening the life of my drives?

Should i just keep them on all the time?

-MTXR
 
You will find this a religous type topic.

Anyway for my 23 cents worth:

IMHO, contiunally cycling the harddrive up and down will greatly shorten its life. A drive can only tolerate so many power cycles. This has other consequences. A running harddrive does not pull much power, however starting a harddrive takes a lot of power. This puts a lot of strain on your power supply. (I have 5 in my pc and the lights dim when I power it up) :p .

Just to illustrate, I leave my PCs on all the time (I have 4). My oldest drives were bought back in 97. (3x6.4G) They are in my son's pc right now. Sure they are slow, but I dont think a 4 year old is going to notice :D .

The only time i shut them down is when I am working on them, or I am leaving and I will be gone more than a day.
 
I'm from the school of turning off hard drive power saving.. They save very little power when off, and I too feel the constant spin up is added wear and tear.

If you've ever heard an old about to fail scsi disk trying to spin up you would probably agree.. It's not an assuring sound..

-scoob8000
 
Count me in on the side of leaving them on. Coming from a server background, it's best to let them spin and not spin up and down over time. I don't even have a powersave set for my monitors. If I'm going to be away from them for a while, I just turn them off. Everything I have is an LCD, so I don't feel it's as much wear and tear as turning on an off a CRT.
 
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