Energy Settings - do your hard drives go to sleep ?

Hello everyone,
I am wondering what most of you do in terms of energy settings ( on a windows computer ), do you have your hard drives set to go to sleep after so many hours ? or do you have them set to *never* go off ?
At the moment I have my drives all set to never go to sleep, but I am now wondering if I should be setting them to "sleep" in 4 or 5 hours.
I am a bit hesitant to do this, because I wonder if I am encoding video, and the 4 hour mark kicks in while an encode is happening - WILL the computer go to sleep ? or will it continue on and finished the video ?
Thanks for any information.
DAve.

For single disks it may be possible to use the sleep function, but I would not advise it. The power saved is negligent and is offset by the wear-and-tear of the start-stop cycles. For multiple disks in a Raid configuration, you have the problem of staggered spin-up sequences. So, Dan is right, it is not worth the trouble.

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I have found a solution!
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Then Verify all disks
Then reboot....
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