>
> Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> <snip>
>
> 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.
IDE as well, your wording about 10.000 cycles maybe correct but ide-disks
that i have only have a one year warrenty, pity i only boot most machines
once a year. However a lot of friends i have always have H/D probs, i dont,
food for thought.????.
>
> Marc
>
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> Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
> University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
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Regards Richard.
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