Originally Posted by ChrisLayerUK
Am I right thinking that you should not be turning Sooloos off a lot as it is not good for the hard drive.....
Clarification would be helpfull if any has the definitive answer.cheers Chris smile

I tend to subscribe to the less-is-better philsophy with hard-drive on/off cycles. If the reason to cycle the unit is to speed up the appearance of the artwork, then I think a bit of patience is in order as it will eventually show up.

There will always be somebody who experiences long drive life from a unit that gets cycled frequesntly, and conversely somebody who gets very short life from one that is always on (or off) - but I think across an acceptable sample size, less cycles is better than more cycles. Although I am sure that hard-drive life in laptops is a result of many factors, my personal experience is that drives fail three time more frequently than the unit in my desktop (3 dead laptop drives in 10 yrs versus one in 15 years for the desktop - ok, small sample size, but still ....).

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