Power Options: Turn off harddrive. Effective or dangerous?
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I keep a PC running 24x7 as it handles several light (processor-wise and disk-wise) tasks and acts as a jumping point into my network from outside. I'd like to keep it as energy efficient as possible. I've always wondered about the "Turn off harddrive after XX mins inactivity" type settings. I can …
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...but I figured that in more modern OSes there are so many background tasks running and likely touching the disk periodically that this setting is pretty ineffective. Yes, in general, you would expect the occasions that the drive containing your sy…
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