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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Leaving the hard disk on continuously
Keywords: hard disk park - DON'T DO IT DAILY!!!! POWER OFF AT NIGHT!!!!
Message-ID: <733@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 18:36:21 GMT
References: <12184@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <7837@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1310@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <1310@iitmax.IIT.EDU> demoedf@iitmax.UUCP (ed federmeyer) writes:
...I find it hard to believe that turning a PC on and off every day can be
...harmfull... Even in the long run.  I had a (what many of you would call a
..."wimpy, toy")  Commodore 64 for maybe 5 years or so until I "upgraded" to
...a PC clone.  I used to turn that sucker on and off HUNDREDS of times a week!

Perhaps the C-64 had all its chip soldered in place?  Thermal cycling
can make a chip walk out of its socket, given enough cycles.  Also, the
"strain" on any motored devices occurs during power-up, power-down, and
changes in the load.  A motor will spin nicely almost forever.