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From: swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turn-off Harddisk Motor?
Message-ID: <5930031@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 89 14:57:12 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Re: Turning off hard-disk motor

To answer the needs of your weather station application: If the rate of
disk access is so low, have you considered writing the hourly material to
a floppy drive instead (which stops rotating shortly after the write
operation)?  That way you can reduce the cost of your PC by totally deleting
the hard disk.

From my own experience, I've run 2 HP Vectra ES (AT-compatible) machines
for over 2 years, on a daily basis, with a power shutdown at the end of
every day.  Result:  NO hard disk failures.