<div dir="ltr">There is that factor as well. The hardest thing on any vehicle is that first start in the morning. Little lubrication, not at optimum operating temperature etc. I don't think anything in life is really either or, it's more like if and when.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Lennart Sorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:<br>
> I agree saving power is a reasonable thing. That's one reason I don't<br>
> recommend disabling DPMS completely. Spinning down the drives saves power<br>
> and also servs to extend the lifespan of the drive, if only marginally.<br>
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Some of the drives I have had last the longest never spun down. I had<br>
an 18GB quantum fireball that ran for 82000 power on hours before the<br>
bearings started sounded so bad you didn't want to be in the same building<br>
as the drive.<br>
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