> Reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs) > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs) > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:59:30 +0800 > From: hilary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Hard drive life
> Hello all > I've been wondering if anyone has the definitive answer to this question > - I've > heard both sides of the story depending who I was talking with but still no > 'real' answer. > > What wears a hard-drive the most? Is it the start up or the continuous > running of > it? I've got friends that let their computers run on all day and only > shut it > down at bedtime or so. Others, like myself start it up and use it for > when I need > it - give or take an hour or so. > > Anyone? > > Hilary Power cycling is hard on hard drives, like starting and shutting off engine again and again. Same with spinning down drives too often. I see this happen in notebooks as well. This is why I like reset button. If you suspect virus in memory, get disk w/ antivirus scanner on it, shut down machine, start up and make sure machine boots from disk or cd first. Keep hard drives cooled by airflow, even a little is enough, too many Macs have poor design for that. Handling hard drives like a bare unbroken egg is best. Certain brands and models is like car-lemons through even same brand of other model has long history of good service. Some brands is worse like WD w/ bunch of BB and AB series they corrupt data when we transfer data across different brands of hard drives back and forth. This when we gave up on WD and kept our choices limited to Maxtor and IBM, Seagates etc. That's it. Cheers, Wizard -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
