Re: Yet another HD question

[Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com>]

billh@lsid.hp.com (Bill Harris) wrote:
>I may be joining the company of those whose HDs are giving out.  My TMS
>Shadow 120 took a number of tries to get spinning yesterday (yes, I saw the
>post yesterday about stiction :-% ), and I've started a full backup to
>(ugh) floppies.
>

>Comments?

I've got one: stop spinning down your hard drive. It's never necessary, 
and is actually a bad idea to spin old drives down because they might not 
spin up again.

I leave my drive on 24 hours a day, only spinning down for thunderstorms 
and hardware fiddling.

If you leave your drive spinning, it may well last for years yet.

TomZ