Re: [TCLUG:1345] Turn off my computer?

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Josh Becker wrote:

> Sometime around the 23th of September in 1998, a certain Chris Kesler said:
> 
> > When the disk is spinning, the head is "flying".  It rides on the air
> > turbulence created by the spinning disk, and it doesn't touch the disk
> > surface unless the disk spins down.  So, the *only* times the disk surface
> > wears is during power up and power down (unless there's an earthquake). 
> 
> I thought the real thing to worry about was the motor wearing out, or the
> bearings wearing out, or something.
> 
> .. I leave all my machines on 24/7, of course. I was just curious.
> 

I've only seen a couple disks ever go bad.  The problem with both of them
was too many bad sectors.  When I'd do a low-level format, it would fail
because there were too many bad spots to keep track of in the bad sector
table.

Chris