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Originally posted by HQ
I thought of this too, but having your HDs run at 7200 (or whatever) RPM consistantly seems hard on them, but you are probably right.
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Think of webservers...running for years...constantly...with no drives seizing.
I have an old Western Digital 1.2 gig Caviar in one box that has been running constant for about 6 + years now. 7200 RPM isn't all that fast considering some SCSI drives run at 15 000+ RPM, all day, every day for years. I think the Seagate Cheetah does, anyways.
My biggest thing is heat. Heat will cause you the most grief, and is would probably be the likely culprit for hardware failure. I have never shut down my computers. And never had problems running them constantly for years on end.
