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modern hdds should not be stored powered down. they should be spinning most of the time in indle to lubricate things. or so I've heard. i have my nas setup a
by 1oooqooq 1y ago
modern hdds should not be stored powered down.
they should be spinning most of the time in indle to lubricate things.
or so I've heard.
i have my nas setup as such and have 10y drivers with constant success (they move from main to spare after 5y). i also aim for the 30w amd cpu (which drawn around 5w in idle)
for drivers i spend $300 every 5yr on new ones, so i can keep growing and renewing. and is a pretty low cost considering cloud alternatives.
- b3lvedere 1y agoI get where you're coming from, but in the field can somehow differ greatly from theory. I have had no real errors since i've used this big NAS. I do admit i personally have a lucky track record regarding harddisks. I think in the more than 25 years i have used spinning hardddisks, about 3 or 4 ever failed me. I don't know why, but most technology i use just keeps on working pretty long. :) I stil have lots of 500 and 1TB disks around in various old NAS devices i haven't booted up in ages. When electricity got quite expensive i decided to stop using those. The amount of data i really really want to protect is less than 1TB in total i think. All the other stuff on the big NAS is 'nice to have' but not life crushing should it be gone forever.