Do you think turning off a drive extends its life?

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:56:04 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

david wrote:

Metspitzer:

In the past I had an idea to fill up all my external bays with blinking
lights and toggle switches and knobs (that go to 11) that do nothing.

Why?

He wants it to look like the Seaview that had huge panels of useless
light panels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKU0M9x0fCo, 10-second
mark) that threw off showers of sparks everytime the submarine listed
violently from side to side. Now Metz needs to get a sparker toy
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAHGrReKfUI), a plasma ball
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKIJKrl35as), or a tesla coil
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdrqdW4Miao).

Yeah, that kind of stuff. Electronic bling bling

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:28:40 -0400, Metspitzer rearranged some electrons
to say:

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:41:58 +0000 (UTC), david wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:06:36 -0400, Metspitzer rearranged some electrons
to say:


In the past I had an idea to fill up all my external bays with
blinking lights and toggle switches and knobs (that go to 11) that do
nothing.


Why?

For the flash factor. I was kidding of course, but you have to admit
dials, switches, lights and gauges would make pretty funny gag.

Make the front of the computer look like the cockpit of a plane.

Sorry, I didn't know you were 10 years old.