24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
3:16 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Schreiber" <als at thangorodrim.de>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: Leaving computers on... (was Re: Disc analyser news update)
There are several things that kill machines on powerup, among them
- electrical surges
- thermal changes
- for hard drives, especially older ones running for a long time,
stiction (having the heads stick to the platters)
- running out of power cycles
The last one is/was an issue for laptop drives, as they are specified only
for a limited number of powercycles. With very aggressive power management
shutting them down/powering them up every few minutes, that number isn't
as large as one might think.
Limited number of power cycles? Is there any way to know what this figure
started off at?
And better yet, a way to reset it? :)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk