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From: bill@hp-pcd.UUCP (bill)
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Subject: Re: Hard disk shutoff
Message-ID: <15200036@hpcvlo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 14:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 16 14:10:00 1986
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Nf-From: hpcvlo!bill    Oct 16 10:10:00 1986


I could be wrong, but it seems to me that it might be more damaging
to constantly spin your hard disk up and down than it would be to
just keep the thing running all the time.  Don't hard disk heads generally
"float" above the disk surface, rather than touch it (as is the case
with floppies)?  My 20M hard disk frequently runs 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week, and generally runs just fine.  (I say "generally" because it's
a CMI drive in a PC-AT, and has a family history of hard errors.)

bill frolik
hp-pcd!bill
Hewlett-Packard Portable Computer Division
Corvallis, Oregon