The hard drive is always spinning (unless it has been put to sleep by the system), and almost constantly seeking (read/write heads moving back and forth across the platters), reading, and writing regardless of your activity. Remember, the OS is very busy too, even when apparently "idle".
Your actions influence the seek, read, and write patterns of the disk, but pretty much anything you do, and that the system allows, is within spec for the disk. When disks die, it was, as Robin Bowes said, time to depart. -- MrC _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
