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Letting hdds spin down is generally not advisable in a NAS, unless you access it really rarely perhaps.
by 1over137 1y ago
Letting hdds spin down is generally not advisable in a NAS, unless you access it really rarely perhaps.
- sandreas 1y agoIs there any (semi-)scientific proof to that (serious question)? I did search a lot to this topic but found nothing... (see above, same question)
- gosub100 1y agoIt's probably decades old anecdata from people who re commissioned old drives that were on the shelf for many years. The theory is that the grease on the spindle dries up and seizes up the platters.
- Dr4kn 1y agoSpin down isn't as problematic today. It really depends on your setup and usage. If the stuff you access often can be cashed to SSDs you rarely access it. Depending on your file system and operating system only drives that are in use can be spun up. If you have multiple drive arrays with media some of it won't be accessed as often. In an enterprise setting it generally doesn't make sense. For a home environment disks you generally don't access the data that often. Automatic downloads and seeding change that.