This is a Winders machine. It gets rebooted every day to clear out the
accumulated memory corruption. Consequently, all drives run
intermittently. Power saving modes also turn the motors on and off and
shut off much of the circuitry many times throughout the day.
I'm a flip the power on and off and shake out the bugs kind of guy.
Chuck Norcutt
Wayne Harridge wrote:
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>>Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>technology is then current. The drives themselves should have a very
>>long life since they only need to be powered on when actually working.
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> I don't know what the current thinking is on this, but it used to be that
> drives which were constantly in use were more reliable than drives thet were
> stopped/started intermittently. Might be worth checking.
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> ...Wayne
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> Wayne Harridge
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