[X4U] Applecare and hard drives

[Linda]

On 10/5/05 10:50 AM, Doyle Yoder wrote:

> I am just wondering, how often to shut off your computer or put your
> hard drives to sleep.
> 
> I have seen very few hard drives fail when computers were run 24
> hours a day. I can't say that for ones that were shut down and went
> through a heat-cooling cycle.

I am a believer in 24/7 computing so that OS X can run its cron jobs at 3
a.m. (or whenever it is that . On my computers (the G4 and external Maxtors
in my earlier post), the hard drives do not sleep at all (SETI, protein
folding, etc.), so I expect my MTBF to arrive "sooner" than most folks. The
iMac I referred to is allowed to sleep, she's a light user that checks her
email once a day or so. The Toshiba was a laptop, and it was fully turned
off for hubby to take it to campus every day.