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Don't they stop spinning when idle?

• layer8 3y ago
  Not by default, but you can have the OS have them spin down after a certain idle period. Doing that too frequently can affect the life time of the drive though. You save maybe 4 Watts per drive by spinning them down.
  • Dalewyn 3y ago
    Personally, I make sure my HDDs (regardless use case) never spin down when idle. The cost in life span isn't worth the electricity bill saved.
    • Arn_Thor 3y ago
      Same. Also I’ve had some software error out as it waits for drives to spin up (in an NFS share context).
• orthoxerox 3y ago
  They are never idle if the NAS is seeding torrents.