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Subject: hard-drive
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I'm preparing to build a hardware project with my pc that requires leaving it
on on a continuous basis.  I'm concerned that leaving a HD on for 365 days a
year for maybe a few years will kill it fast.

Are there any more durable drives ( for realatively cheap ) out there?

What kind of factors besides head crashes will damage a HD?

Or, is leaving a HD on for so long crazy, and I should just forget it and
boot from a floppy and write the software to do no drive accesses?


-- 
-jackal :)