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From: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk shutoff
Message-ID: <644@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 12:00:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.644
Posted: Sun Oct 19 12:00:02 1986
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References: <12068@watnot.UUCP> <897@nicmad.UUCP>
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In article <897@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>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.) 

	The original bbs, CBBS-Chicago has been running 8 years, the last
6 on a 15 meg HD in a s-100 box *continuously* but for one power outage
about 3 years ago.  Also, my 3b2 has been running with standard PC type
80 meg disks for over a year.  I believe the general opinion is that
hard disks like to run, and spinning them up and down is what leads to
failures.

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.. that's the biz, sweetheart...
Randy Suess
chinet - Public Access UN*X
(312) 545 7535 (h) (312) 283 0559 (system)
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