To spin down HD or not to spin down

Eric Falk wrote on :

Instead of putting my computer to sleep at night, I have the monitor to turn off and the HD to spin down after a while (why I do this instead of sleep, I forget, but I'm sure I have a good reason). Anyway, sometimes something happens that makes the HD spin up, and in the morning I get back on and the HD has to spin up, etc.

AFAIK I spinning a HD up in just like starting up a car, its the worst thing you can do to it. In terms of making my HD last its longest (not power savage), which is best? Leave my HD spinning for long time or spin it down?

Jason Haines replied on :

In article eric-falk-D4B29F.00144222012001@redacted.invalid, Eric Falk eric-falk@redacted.invalid wrote:

Instead of putting my computer to sleep at night, I have the monitor to turn off and the HD to spin down after a while (why I do this instead of sleep, I forget, but I'm sure I have a good reason). Anyway, sometimes something happens that makes the HD spin up, and in the morning I get back on and the HD has to spin up, etc.

AFAIK I spinning a HD up in just like starting up a car, its the worst thing you can do to it. In terms of making my HD last its longest (not power savage), which is best? Leave my HD spinning for long time or spin it down?

I was told years ago it was best to just leave the HD spinning....

clw replied on :

In article <220120012113551515%matreya@redacted.invalid_mac.com>, Jason Haines <matreya@redacted.invalid_mac.com> wrote:

I was told years ago it was best to just leave the HD spinning....

The HD on my old Q 630 has over 25000 hours of spinning on it and still works just fine.

I have always used a fad away screen saver and the old monitor has just as good color definition as my new mac.