On 12/29/06, n.east <[email protected]> wrote: > > You will find there are two schools of thoughts on this. Thank you for the detailed reply. My decision is to turn off my computer when I retire for the evening, turning it on again when I arise. Do I correctly understand that in that circumstance I would set the hard drives to never be turned off due to their inactivity when not being in use? I thank you again. Fred, Sr.

> > >Thank you for the detailed reply. My decision is to turn off my computer >when I retire for the evening, turning it on again when I arise. > >Do I correctly understand that in that circumstance I would set the hard >drives to never be turned off due to their inactivity when not being in use? I do that same as > I turn on my computer in the early AM, before, do my e-mail etc and then shut off the computer until I turn it on again from 4 PM to 6 PM. I have my monitor set to turn off after 10 minutes and my HD after 20 minutes. Fred, if you are have your computer on all day and are not using it , your HD would run all day. bob gillis