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From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( ISR group account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Why aren't more hard disks like the Portable's?
Message-ID: <2326@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 15:32:13 GMT
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Reply-To: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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This just brings us into the eternal war over whether it's better
to leave the hard disk on and wear the bearings out or spin it down
and back up, thus wearing the motor and stressing the bearings...

The portable does it simply for power savings, that's it.
-- 
Mike Schechter, Computer Engineer,Institute Sensory Research, Syracuse Univ.
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