Actually having a HD stop and start all the time is WORSE on it than
leaving it spin all the time. Think about it for a minute. The largest
number of drive failures I have seen are on drives that have been
stopped and won't spin up again. Very rare indeed is the spinning
failure.
No we use hard drives, but mine are journaled and RAIDed ;-) And the OS
don't crash as much, nor is it the target of every 18 yo hacker with an
imaginary grudge against Billy Boy.
Larry
On Sep 5, 2003, at 4:07 PM, Brad Fornal wrote:
> I don't do it because of virus worries. I do it for fear of hard drive
> failure. I store lots of stuff on the hard drive, and if it is on a HD
> that only spins up to retrieve info, rather than spinning the whole
> time running the OS, it should live a long time. I guess Macs have
> everything saved on a memory chip, so no HD failure is
> possible.............
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. [mailto:macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Fri 9/5/2003 2:40 PM
> To: Brad Fornal
> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net; Mike MacLean
> Subject: Re: Doh! Stupid Computer!
>
>
>
> Mike I obvously do not agree with Brad on this one, why worry about
> saving files when you are running a Mac?? mostly invisible to the
> virus
> and worm writers and just as fast and more stable.
>
> Larry (throw that PC away) Macy
>
>
>
>
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