Servers are set to run all the time and many are never really switched off, most of them have the same consumer drives you using. It only saves electricty though which isn't much anyway but you do over work the drive when you keep rebooting it often.
BTW I use western digital drives, a 6.4 to boot and a 40GB for my work files. If my OS fails then I only have to format the 6.4 and reinstall which takes 27 min's and both are NTFS format. Dosn't get corrupted and so far can't be virused. Everything important is backed to CDR and at 59 US cents each it beats any other media. ......my 2 cents Feroze On Monday, October 14, 2002 5:02 AM, William Robb [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hi; > My computer is set up to shut the hard drives off after a few > minutes of inactivity. > Is this a good thing, or should they run all the time? > Thanks > > William Robb >
