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RE: Mac OS X computers restarting

At 1:46 PM -0500 4/15/04, Fendley, Matthew scribbled:
Hey Jan.
We are still running 10.2.8 on our lab machines as well. I have them set to
put the display to sleep after 15 minutes, and the hard drives after 1 hour.
It's my understanding that allowing the hard drives to "sleep" cuts down on
the wear of having to spin at operating RPMs constantly.

I'm interested if anyone has any definitive information on this. I would have thought the exact opposite...that leaving them running all the time (hard drives) is LESS wear and tear! It's easier to keep something spinning at 7200 RPMs than it is to make it go from 0-7200 in a few seconds!

They say the worst thing you can do to your car's engine is start it up; that's when most of an engine's wear takes place because all the lubrication (oil) is in the pan and not on the parts that need lubricating. I know there's no oil in a hard drive, but I always figured the basic principle was the same.

Any other thoughts?
...ROMeyn
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