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<blockquote data-quote="LJG" data-source="post: 1170634" data-attributes="member: 120269"><p>I have recently discovered that the power settings on my Windows 8.1 PC, used as a media server, were set to power down the hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity.</p><p></p><p>I changed this to never and it solved a lot of access problems that I was having from the 4 client machines, and two laptops. Namely hanging, not responding, server not accessible. Now I get much quicker access and faster response times from all machines.</p><p></p><p>My question is - what is the pay off likely to be in terms of electricity usage, and shortening the lives of the hard drives? The server PC is left on 24/7, it is also an Argus TV Server. It has 6 hard drives in, about 12TB storage.</p><p></p><p>What do other folks do?</p><p></p><p>lisa</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LJG, post: 1170634, member: 120269"] I have recently discovered that the power settings on my Windows 8.1 PC, used as a media server, were set to power down the hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity. I changed this to never and it solved a lot of access problems that I was having from the 4 client machines, and two laptops. Namely hanging, not responding, server not accessible. Now I get much quicker access and faster response times from all machines. My question is - what is the pay off likely to be in terms of electricity usage, and shortening the lives of the hard drives? The server PC is left on 24/7, it is also an Argus TV Server. It has 6 hard drives in, about 12TB storage. What do other folks do? lisa [/QUOTE]
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