Power always on, or power on/off

Eric J Korpela wrote: LOL on the "feel wanted" part. I have to second the notion that "it depends on usage". It also depends on hardware -- for example, the older a hard drive is, the more it should be kept running if at all possible (cooling permitting, of course) to prevent the bearings from seizing up. I had an ST-225 that wouldn't spin up once and I really wanted the data off of it: I knew the drive heads were parked at the outside of the drive, so I took a chance and put it on a lazy susan with the platters' axis of rotation aligned with the lazy susan's axis. I slowly spun the entire unit on the lazy such that centrifugal force kept the drive heads at the outside where they were parked. When I had it up to a decent speed (ie as fast as my hand could turn it without the drive flying off), I quickly stopped it, and heard the bearings "unstick" and the platters move. Plugged it in, and it worked fine -- in fact, it ran for three entire days. I powered the machine off (after grabbing the data off of it of course), came back to it the next day, and it was dead for good. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/