Folding Forum

Hi. I'm a little concerned about having my hard drive spinning all night long so is it safe to allow windows power management to turn it off after a long period of inactivity on the PC? I don't know much about the power management options or if they are worth anything at all. I just want to know if allowing the hard disks to turn off will negatively effect FAH GPU. (the one running using my radeon HD 3870)

Well, it's in fact better to let it run all time instead of stopping/starting it multiple times ... most mechanical components like hard drives doesn't like transitional states (startup and shut down).

By the way, you client will output to the disk quite often (on each percent and every 15 minutes), so that might create too many stress on your hard drive.

Ok. Good to know.

*Note to self: Invest in a quieter cooling system for my video card...