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10.3: Use Secure Empty Trash to reclaim hard disk space
If you could KEEP a hard drive spun down for a significant amount of time (a half-hour or longer, to allow it to cool down) when it's not being accessed, that might increase the life of the drive, but if you have only one drive in your Mac, that drive is constantly being accessed while you're using the Mac, so a spindown setting would be pretty useless in that situation since the drive would constantly be spun down and up again, and this might add to the wear and tear caused by a hard drive's main enemy, heat. The Energy Saver prefpane's setting "Put the hard disks to sleep when possible" doesn't let you set how much user inactivity time after which the drive is supposed to spin down, so who knows what figure it uses? If it spins down after only a few minutes of user inactivity, many Macs will spin their drives down and up over and over, as the user pauses or steps away from their Mac for a few minutes throughout the day. I think some third-party utilities let you set the delay before a drive spins down; but if the drive isn't able to stay spun down for more than a half-hour or so at a time, a spindown setting would probably be useless or worse since it wouldn't have time to cool down substantially. |
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