Richard Adams wrote:
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> Keeping a box on 24-7 is beter for the hardware than restarting 2 or even 3
> times a day. The hard drive for one gets a bashing at bootime, spinup and
> spindown wear out a H/D quicker than anything else.
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Careful, it depends on the type of HD you have:
- If you use SCSI then what you say is right (more right than you may
think), because SCSI is always considered a 'server' thing. So the
vendors generally guarantee only some thousand startup-cycles!
- If you use IDE (phh...:-) then what you say is wrong. Some vendors
*require* to startup-cycle their devices from time to time ! Generally,
IDE devices are guaranteed more than 10,000 startup-cycles.
Marc
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