Re: cocktail?

[Glenn Schunemann]

I agree. I may set up the display to sleep, but that's it. I figure 
hard drives are like car engines. What kills an engine? Running it? No. 
Turning it on and off. That few seconds that the pistons move without 
adequate oil pressure. Over 200 or 300k miles, that what kills it. Same 
goes for a hard drive. When it's on it's spinning. Having it constantly 
spin up and down upon waking and sleeping seems like it would wear 
things out much faster.

Plus, and this the biggest thing: Apple ships new machines to spin down 
after 5 mintues! Arrggghhh! Problem: when you are downloading a large 
file(s) (say, OS X updates for instance), the Mac does not see that as 
"activity" and will put the computer to sleep in the middle of a 
download! Then the connection gets lost and you don't get your update. 
So, turn off HD spin down. It's useless in my book.

On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 01:36 PM, LuKreme (List User Kreme) 
wrote:

/me has never set a macintosh to go to sleep, not in OS <X and 
certainly not in OS X.  Computers for me have two states, powered on 
and powered off, so I don't consider "sleep" restrictions


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