From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

andrew clarke wrote:

> I imagine/hope it'd draw less than 100W with the monitor turned off.  With any
> luck the hard disk will power down too when it's not doing anything, although
> I'm not sure about the longevity of hard disks powering up and down all the
> time, so I let mine spin continuously (for years). 

  Same here, I'm sure it has an affect on life, but can't really find any hard 
data to back this up.

  The maxtor datasheets quote a 500,000 power cycle life, which equates to well 
over a thousand years if you do it every day.  But I'm not sure if that 
requires translation similar to MTBF of a million hours, yet a service life of 
3 years.

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