Laurie, Have you or anyone else seen data for MTBF due to recycling and MTBF due to bearing or other failure? Presumably the manufacturers must know how many startups/downs their drives will survive and how long the bearings will last. If we had that info we could balance one against the other and see where the optimum lies.
Bob Frost. ----- Original Message ----- From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 6:30 AM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: keeping the 16bit scans When I say that turning a HD on and off has a negative effect in terms of wear and tear similar to that which might take place if one left the HD on all the time, I am speaking on the average and not to any particular individual case. Unless, you are prepared to say that turning a HD on and off does not contribute to its wear and tear, the fact that you personally only do so once a week is sort of irrelevant as a refutation of my point. If you backed up or archived once a day every day, woulod you still be able to clain that the wear and tear of turning the drive on and off is less than keeping it on all the time during that week? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body