About 15 years ago I contacted 2 HD manufactures and asked which would last longer:
1. turning your computer on and off daily
2. turning your computer on and leaving it on until the HD fails.
They both said #2 would be best because the HD spindle will last longer due to steady state theory and suffer less mechanical wear due to less cold starts.
It has now been 14 years since we started our Dell servers at work. When we put them into service we bought an additional set of replica hard drives that we swapped out at 12 years service and used Norton Ghost to transfer all of the data and related programs. Both run like they did at startup and are going to be retired in 2017 when we move the office.
But no components have failed. We re-boot the Windows 2000 Server OS every 3 months and blow out the case once a year with compressed air.
Note: Both have commercial grade APC battery backup and surge protection and power monitoring.
Does anyone else do this?
1. turning your computer on and off daily
2. turning your computer on and leaving it on until the HD fails.
They both said #2 would be best because the HD spindle will last longer due to steady state theory and suffer less mechanical wear due to less cold starts.
It has now been 14 years since we started our Dell servers at work. When we put them into service we bought an additional set of replica hard drives that we swapped out at 12 years service and used Norton Ghost to transfer all of the data and related programs. Both run like they did at startup and are going to be retired in 2017 when we move the office.
But no components have failed. We re-boot the Windows 2000 Server OS every 3 months and blow out the case once a year with compressed air.
Note: Both have commercial grade APC battery backup and surge protection and power monitoring.
Does anyone else do this?
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