RE: Re: Getting DVDs onto a hard drive

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> OK cool - Are your drives all permanently on or do you switch them on
> as and when?

Nowadays the Mac is set to spin the drives down when not in use because I
spend so much time away from here for work ... the problem with that is
tha=
t
spinning up and reading the directories of 23 drives in sequence obviously
takes quite a bit of time - several minutes in fact - which is not
acceptable when you want to watch a movie so when I'm using the movies
server regularly I do set the Mac to leave the drives spinning.
=20
> I guess your carbon footprint is bigger than most ;)

I'll leave the obvious hilarious japes to the rest of my "mates"
here to
post however my 'leccy bill is about =A390 a month at the moment - is that
bad? ;-)

(And as for Carbon Footprint ... That never worried me before and since
"Th=
e
Great Global Warming Swindle" then I worry about it even less.)=20

Phil=20