should hard drives be left running 24 hrs/day?

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From: Paul G. Nevai
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1989 12:15

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This is an oldie:

Should an extrenal Mac hard drive be left on 24 hours a day or
should it be turned on in the morning and turned off in the
evening?

I say: turn off

My departmental computer committee chairman was adviced to the
contrary by his Apple rep. 

I am inclined to distrust the Apple rep (sorry guys at Apple,
I trust you, I just distrust reps) because I feel he just wants to
sell more drives to us in the long run.

Am I right? Please email your opinion to me (prefer edu address).


Paul Nevai                                pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu
Department of Mathematics                 TS1171@ohstvma.BITNET
The Ohio State University                 73057,172.Compu$erve
231 West Eighteenth Avenue                1-(614)-292-5310.office
Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A.                1-(614)-292-4975.department

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Subject: should hard drives be left running 24 hrs/day?
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