Not really. With minimum 50000 cycles, you can spin up and down 28 times every day for 5 years. It may not sound a lot, but in reality it is. I have my NAS set

Not really. With minimum 50000 cycles, you can spin up and down 28 times every day for 5 years. It may not sound a lot, but in reality it is. I have my NAS set to spindown after 15 minutes idle time and have on average around 1000 cycles every year.