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James Sweet wrote:
The plug in cards don't have anything to do with it, the argument is
mostly
for mechanical components like hard drives and fans. I think it largely
stems from the fact that a drive with marginal bearings or some other
problem is most likely to fail to start up from cold a while before it
fails
while warm and running. Same with light bulbs that most often fail at

However, the bearings will wear out way faster when spinning
continuously, same goes for electrolytic capacitors.


Yes, but when failure is imminent, it will most likely keep spinning until
it's been shut off and then it will fail to spin up again, that's the sort
of thing that leads people to believe that turning it off and on caused it
to fail.