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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Leaving Computer On - specifically hard drives
Message-ID: <2563@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 89 20:49:26 GMT
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Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joseph A Porkka)
Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <20464@srcsip.UUCP> carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) writes:
>
>Disk ON:
>
>The bearings are designed to last.  I have never seen (so I'm young - big deal
>- I still get around) a drive wear out due to bearings.  I'm not saying faulty
>manufacturing can't produce bad bearings that wear, but that's not the same
>issue.

Here's a scarey story for ya:
	Here at network services @ msu, we still have some old
	Comlumbia Data Products PCClones. They are not the best built
	machines I've ever seen.
	A couple months age,  a hard drive in one of them started
	making noise. Shorty, it began smoking, and then
	SSSCCCRRREEEECCCCHHHH!! went the drive, stopping abruptly.

This probly won't happen with a decent harddisk, but if yours
starts makeing bad noises, *turn it off *now**