On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:03:58PM +0900, Torben M. Hansen wrote:
> day. We assume that the power consumption of the computer is 50 W. In the
> case when the computer is turned off every day we assume that the hard disk
> will last for 3 years and in the case where it is always on we assume 5
> years.
An additional factor, just to have fun:
Leaving the hard disk on doesn't always increase its life. In fact,
until I made sure that my system was cooling properly, I was going
through a hard drive a year (5 years in a row!). I think this one is
licked - the current drives have both lasted two years.
Chalk this one up to cheap drives.
mark
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