street_samurai Wrote: > Remember that modern hard drives are designed to be run all the time. > Spinning anything mechanical up and down actually does more damage than > leaving it on all the time. Thus a hard drive will be more reliable if > left on all the time. > While this is completely true, its also worth some additional perspective. Modern drives are designed for > 50,000 spin up/down cycles. That's over 27 times per day, each day, for 5 years. Not many people have to worry about this.
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