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Yes - although it's worth bearing in mind the number of load/unload cycles a drive is rated for over its lifetime. In the case of the IronWolf NAS drives in my
by philjohn 2y ago
Yes - although it's worth bearing in mind the number of load/unload cycles a drive is rated for over its lifetime.
In the case of the IronWolf NAS drives in my home server, that's 600,000.
I spin the drives down after 20 minutes of no activity, which I feel is a good balance between having them be too thrashy and saving energy. After 3 years I'm at about 60,000 load unload cycles.