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Originally Posted by number.cruncher
Amen. I can't believe the wastage. You'd think new technology would spare a thought for global warming. What's the excuse? 
Aside from scheduled recordings, why should the drive spin when in standby? Surely no-one expects to be able to "rewind live TV" to before they switched the unit on! |
"They say" a HDD suffers less wear from being constantly spun up than it does from being constantly spun up from rest.
I can say that this is definately true for electric motors in general but concede that it is not very Green at all.
