Maximise Hard-disk life

[Abhinav Nishant]

Well, my desktop runs 24 x 365.
Is there any way to keep the hard disk use minimal?

I have two hard-disks, SATA, and windows XP sp3 installed. The option turn
off hard-disk is enabled at 3mins
My connection, a primitive one, dial-up, and I run torrents. utorrent, my
torrent client, has an option for disk sctching, which i set to 32MB.
Is it enough or I need to do some more changes?
I believe there must be some other way too to keep the hard-disk use
minimal.

Regards,
Abhinav

 

[Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B)]

I have two hard-disks, SATA, and windows XP sp3 installed. The option turn

off hard-disk is enabled at 3mins
My connection, a primitive one, dial-up, and I run torrents. utorrent, my
torrent client, has an option for disk sctching, which i set to 32MB.
Is it enough or I need to do some more changes?

Nothing lasts forever.... and hard disks would only get cheaper as time
goes by. So don't be bothered by it...

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[Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B)]

I have two hard-disks, SATA, and windows XP sp3 installed. The option turn

off hard-disk is enabled at 3mins
My connection, a primitive one, dial-up, and I run torrents. utorrent, my
torrent client, has an option for disk sctching, which i set to 32MB.

I suggest you use a dedicated hard disk for torrents. Don't mix valuable
data with those torrents+downloads!!! If the torrent drive died, you
could easily replace it without crying for your data....

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[TVeblen]

Well, my desktop runs 24 x 365.
Is there any way to keep the hard disk use minimal?

I have two hard-disks, SATA, and windows XP sp3 installed. The option turn
off hard-disk is enabled at 3mins
My connection, a primitive one, dial-up, and I run torrents. utorrent, my
torrent client, has an option for disk sctching, which i set to 32MB.
Is it enough or I need to do some more changes?
I believe there must be some other way too to keep the hard-disk use
minimal.

Regards,
Abhinav

There has been much debate over many years as to whether a hard drive that
is left on continuously would last longer than one that goes through many
on/off cycles. You will find no consensus. You will find many long held
opinions. I don't believe there is a one-size-fits-all answer. The best
advice is to plan for the worst and take proper precautions similar to what
Man-wai suggested with the dedicated hard drive.

 

[Ken]

Well, my desktop runs 24 x 365.
Is there any way to keep the hard disk use minimal?

I have two hard-disks, SATA, and windows XP sp3 installed.
The option turn off hard-disk is enabled at 3mins
My connection, a primitive one, dial-up, and I run torrents. utorrent, my
torrent client, has an option for disk sctching, which i set to 32MB.
Is it enough or I need to do some more changes?
I believe there must be some other way too to keep the hard-disk use
minimal.

Regards,
Abhinav

http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf