Shutting down your computer may be killing your hard drive

How often do you turn your computer on and off in a day?

Are you aware that you may very well be shortening the life of your hard drive (the traditional hard drive, NOT SSD) if you're one of the many persons who choose to turn on and off their computer several times during a day?

It is true that shutting down your computer will reduce you electricity bill and the total overall spinning of the drive thus reducing wear and tear and extend it’s life. However, there is also a flip side to this, you see since it takes a while for a traditional hard drive to get up to normal, operational spinning speed, you stopping and then starting again and again can also cause some serious problems since the most wear and tear on a traditional spinning hard drive occurs at "spin-up" or during the start up of the drive.

NB: Turning the computer on and off once or twice in a day is not a problem, but four, five, six or even more times will cause your hard drive to fail long before it should, keeping in mind that other variable can also contribute to a hard drive failing.