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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