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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Hard disk shutoff
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 10:45:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 17 10:45:41 1986
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <12068@watnot.UUCP> rdgreenall@watnot.UUCP (Richard Greenall) writes:
>      I  was wondering if any one out there has had any experience in running
>a bulletin board system off of a 20 meg hard disk.  I am wondering
>if the constant running  of the hard disk is damaging to it. (Ex.  running
>approximately 20 hours. per day.) 

Yep!  I run a BBS using a PC-XT, with two 20MB drives in it.  One is for
work stuff and the other for the BBS.  Before that I had two 10MB drives
in the XT, which ran for over a year for 24 hours a day.  The current drives
have only been in about 6 months.  They too run for 24 hours a day.  Yesterday
I had to low-level format the BBS drive.  The drive started to take hits, ie,
it would error when reading data.  Everything seems fine now.

Because the drives run 24 hours a day, I use a program called TIMEPARK which
parks the heads after 1 to 9 minutes (user selectable).  That keeps the
heads off the work area while nobody is on the system and since the work
drive is spinning, it isn't accessed, it parks that one as well.

I wouldn't worry about drives spinning 24 hours a day.
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