On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 22:50 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > I power everything off when I leave for any period of time. I use to > be an uptime freak - I don't care now. If I'm not home, it doesn't > need to be powered on. I even power off the cable modem. > > I know it is harder on hard drives, but I don't think it is that big > of a deal. I would expect the running life of a hard drive to, at least, support the drive being turned on and off once a day. If not, then the manufacturer's doing a really crap job. It would be unreasonable to expect devices must be permanantly running, even if it were hardware designed specifically for use in servers (which most probably isn't). I would also expect it's operational life time to be long enough that you'd have replaced it out of choice, long before it dies. e.g. For want of a bigger or faster drive. Though that doesn't seem to be the case, these days. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
