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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:00:23 -0400, Mark J. Dulcey <mark at buttery.org> wrote: > Nicholas Bodley wrote: >> Wondering: Are the critical factors cooling, and HD platter bearing >> life? Anything else? Seems that my suggestion to use a laptop 24/7 was >> not a good idea; I'll readily accept that it was probably bad advice. I >> try to arrange fans to cool off hot spots. > > Yes, those tend to be the most critical ones. (And don't forget fan > bearing life! [...] Oh, gosh, yes! Of course. Thanks much. Ball bearings, or (probably) fluid hydrodynamic bearings... > Though hard disk bearings seem to last quite a while, especially if the > drive runs continuously; > starting and stopping the drive frequently is likely to actually be > worse. (The typical desktop pattern of on 8-10 hours and off for the > rest of the day is less of a problem.) "likely to actually be worse": New to me; good, and helpful, to know. > On a typical server, you'll never get that extended period of inactivity. Of course; servers are an important part of this thread. Fwiw, my current HD is a Maxtor 40-GB Romulus (iirc); has worked beautifully for a good while. Haven't memorized the model no., although hardware-probe results fields look very familiar. > If nothing else, you'll have spam attempts coming in often enough to > activate your email server; even if the spam is discarded, you'll get an > entry in your email log, and that means disk activity. <chat> I power down my machine between sessions, and sometimes, I see somebody (or a bunch of them) "poking" at my DSL bridge. Ethernet between the machine and the DSL bridge shuts down, but I have a fixed IP. </kitty> (French pun) Thanks much! -- Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA") The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath Happiness is a full Quabbin.
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