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Originally Posted by Tat2Jr
I did all that to save electricity (not for monetary reasons - just the right thing to do), and the hard drives I set to turn off because of 2 hard drive failures in the last year (my firsts in 11 years).
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Some say that the mechanical stress of repeatedly spinning up and down could also lead to premature failure.
Is that really even practical with modern OS's that cache and do background stuff which requires drive I/O? I see my XP box HD light flickering every now and then, even when I haven't typed anything on it for hours. That would spin up the drive just to read or write a few sectors.