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In 2024, do you let your computer go to sleep or not ?
Psi:
--- Quote from: rdl on January 09, 2024, 04:31:24 pm ---With spinning disk drives, how long they last is surely related to how they are used. I have a server for archival purposes, it can be days between times when it is accessed. Sometimes even as long as a month. There is no way I can believe that leaving the drives running constantly will make them last longer than if they are shut down when not needed.
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Yep, how many times the data is being accessed each day is the key.
They could be doing spin up/down/up/down/up/down 100 times a day, or once a day. etc.. depending on what your doing.
My only real point was that excessive spin-up spin-down is not good, and IMHO the default time to spin-down is way to short, especially on some drives like WD green's.
coromonadalix:
just got an usb3 to 8 drives storage, 8x power switch for all hdd if needed, and a main power switch
thermally controlled fan, spin very low if no spinning drives and will ramp up if needed
the spinning drives after some time +/-15 min, will spin down automatically, you access them and they will spin up ...
but for sure, when all 8 are not used, i do a full shutdown.
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