🚀 go-pugleaf

I have been told by some engineers that most failures occur when powering
on equipment.  In the initial current surge and the component warm-up,
there is a lot of stress.  This is also true with, for instance, lightbulbs,
which always seem to fail when you first turn them on.

I don't know: 1) whether this is true for motors, such as in a disk; or 2)
where the break-even point is between leaving electronics on versus
subjecting them to start-up stresses; or 3) where the break-even is between
a disk's mechanical components and electronic components.

I'll volunteer to be a guinea pig, since I leave my Mac on from the time
I come home and first use it, until I go to bed(as much as 8 hours), even if I
will be using it only intermittently during the evening.


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)