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Spin Up, Spin Down
GDay All, I have just installed an RND4000 V3 ReadyNAS NV+ onto my network. After some intial problems (My Fault) I managed to get everything working as expected. Then I decided to turn on the spin...
I've heard that said, and also heard the opposite - under the theory that the bearings wear when the drives are spinning.
Slasky wrote: Still, if the disks spin up and down, you'll "wear" them out faster. So leaving them constantly on, is more healthy than making em spin up and down all the time
I've never seen any data to support the wear them out faster idea.
If you look at Seagate Barracuda specs the drives < 1 TB are spec'd at 50K start/stop cycles, drives >= 1 TB re spec'd at 300K load cycles. If you set the spin down time conservatively to 2 hours then you get at most 12 spin ups a day. Even the 50K spec would take 11 years to exceed.
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