On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:04:21AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell Jr. wrote: > - Does spindown/spinup on common IDE drives effect MTBF? > (Any drive for the matter) A typical drive is rated for 30,000 to 50,000 start/stop cycles. But that's the lifetime; I don't think there are any published numbers about MTBF related to start/stop cycles. greg