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Protecting the HD - ensuring longevity
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 940558" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>I've bought the brand new iMac 21.5 1TB.</p><p></p><p>There is conflicting advice about if/when you should put the HD to sleep. By default, 10 minutes. Some books say one hour, two etc and some say keep it on all the time - sleep-restart-sleep-restart "bad" for HD. Some advise manually overnight. Of course during sleep you lose the hourly back ups to Time Machine and there could be background housekeeping which the Mac does over night.</p><p></p><p>What is the accepted wisdom? What's best for the HD?</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 940558, member: 83420"] I've bought the brand new iMac 21.5 1TB. There is conflicting advice about if/when you should put the HD to sleep. By default, 10 minutes. Some books say one hour, two etc and some say keep it on all the time - sleep-restart-sleep-restart "bad" for HD. Some advise manually overnight. Of course during sleep you lose the hourly back ups to Time Machine and there could be background housekeeping which the Mac does over night. What is the accepted wisdom? What's best for the HD? Ian [/QUOTE]
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