There is that factor as well. The hardest thing on any vehicle is that first start in the morning. Little lubrication, not at optimum operating temperature etc. I don't think anything in life is really either or, it's more like if and when.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Lennart Sorensen < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote: > > I agree saving power is a reasonable thing. That's one reason I don't > > recommend disabling DPMS completely. Spinning down the drives saves power > > and also servs to extend the lifespan of the drive, if only marginally. > > Some of the drives I have had last the longest never spun down. I had > an 18GB quantum fireball that ran for 82000 power on hours before the > bearings started sounded so bad you didn't want to be in the same building > as the drive. > > -- > Len Sorensen > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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