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There's a lot of "never let your drive spin down! They need to be running 24/7 or they'll die in no time at all!" voices in the various homelab communities sadl
by philjohn 1y ago
There's a lot of "never let your drive spin down! They need to be running 24/7 or they'll die in no time at all!" voices in the various homelab communities sadly.
Even the lower tier IronWolf drives from Seagate specify 600k load/unload cycles (not spin down, granted, but gives an idea of the longevity).
- sandreas 1y agoIs there any (semi-)scientific proof to that (serious question)? I did search a lot to this topic but found nothing...
- espadrine 1y agoHere is someone that had significant corruption until they stopped: https://www.xda-developers.com/why-not-to-spin-down-nas-hard-drives/ https://www.xda-developers.com/why-not-to-spin-down-nas-hard... There are many similar articles.
- philjohn 1y agoI wonder if they were just hit with the bathtub curve? Or perhaps the fact that my IronWolf drives are 5400rpm rather than 7200rpm means they're still going strong after 4 years with no issues spinning down after 20 minutes. Or maybe I'm just insanely lucky? Before I moved to my desktop machine being 100% SSD I used hard drives for close to 30 years and never had a drive go bad. I did tend to use drives for a max of 3-5 years though before upgrading for more space.
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- billfor 1y agoI wonder if it has to do with the type of HDD. The red NAS drives may not like to be spun down as much. I spin down my drives and have not had a problem except for one drive, after 10 years continuous running, but I use consumer desktop drives which probably expect to be cycled a lot more than a NAS.