Hi,

Thanks, yes I thought about that (or actually buying some outdated hardware
with power savings in a regular shop). I just wondered if I could do it real
cheap :-)

Thanks for your reply.

Regards Ron AF Greve.


"Eric Legge" wrote in message
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Subject: Life expectancy of IDE disk
From: "Moonlit"
Date: 05/07/03 04:26 Pacific Daylight Time
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Hi,

I want to use one of my old pc's (pentium pro 200) as a router/internet
server (currently I have a Pentium 133/32MB doing the same thing).
However
this one hasn't got any power saving features so it won't turn of the
harddisk after a certain period.

I wonder what is the life expectancy of a regular (maxtor) IDE disk if it
is
running 24 hours a day (not much writing or reading though).

Anyone got any experience with this?

Regards, Ron AF Greve.

I would buy a motherboard and processor on ebay that is more up to date
and
that supports IDE power saving.

It would be a good idea to get a motherboard that supports RAID so that
you can
run two hard drives so that the system is duplicated.

If one hard drive goes down, the system switches to the other hard drive
running a clone of the system.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm