Turning off hard disks when inactive

[RD]

My PC running Win XP has an option in power management to turn the hard disks
off after "X" number of minutes of inactivity. Is this a good thing to do or
not. Thanks for any comments.

RD

 

[Rod Speed]

My PC running Win XP has an option in power management
to turn the hard disks off after "X" number of minutes of
inactivity. Is this a good thing to do or not.

I personally only spin down drives in laptops
and notebooks where the battery life matters.

 

[SpaceButler]

(e-mail address removed) (RD) wrote in

My PC running Win XP has an option in power management to turn the
hard disks off after "X" number of minutes of inactivity. Is this a
good thing to do or not. Thanks for any comments.

RD

I normally set my timing to be on all the time. My mp3/video server in the
other room is set for two hours. Another machine that I use to read long
text web pages is set to a couple of minutes to kill the noise.

But spinning up the drives often will do more to stress them than letting
them run all the time (except leaving them on during thunderstorms).