In my experience hard drives that are kept running continuously often last longer than ones that are started and stopped on a regular basis.
Les On 24/10/2010 10:38, Ian W. Wright wrote: > Dell, replaced with Intel, and now Kingston... - He does use > the machine quite intensively, 16 - 18 hours a day but I > have cheap hard drives running in desktops which have been > on permanently for over 4 years now so I would have expected > much better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users