Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu!tybalt.caltech.edu!gbrown From: gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Leave it on? Or once a week? Message-ID: <1990Feb17.053613.23695@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> Date: 17 Feb 90 05:36:13 GMT References: <1161@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1990Feb16.131329.10113@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> Sender: news@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu Distribution: usa Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 6 Someone sent me Email saying that the lifetime of the bearings in your HD is about 10 years and the mean time between failures (unless you have a ci with an apple HD80) is about 5. Leave it on.