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components, especially mechanical ones like hard drives. Some recommend, for 
maximum lifetime, to leave them running all the time.

I don't know how accurate this is, but I HAVE witnessed before powering down a 
machine that had been running for years, where powering up had the HDD fail. 
In fact, we powered the machine down to connect a Tape Drive so we could 
properly back up the content of the HDD which didn't power back up. ;_;

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