[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by Baph

If that's not causing your problems it's certainly making them worse. If you must turn the box off so you can sleep, do that before the hard disk fires up.

The hard disk fires up at night to do housekeeping. That's something that the Sky+ box has to do regularly to ensure the disk works OK (check disk & de-fragmentation mostly).

If you interrupt that process, at best you'll disturb housekeeping & not allow the disk to self heal. At worst the needle point sensors on the inside of the discs will contact the platters where they shouldn't - and this can cause the platters to rip, rendering your Sky+ hard disk useless.

Ahh ok cheers for that.