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HDD Spin down / Spin up - how healthy is that over the years

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Hello unRAID community,

I hear very often that a frequently spin up / spin down of a HDD is not the best and shrink the life time of it.

But that is one of the advantages of unRaid.

 

Is that still a problem of HDDs or a "problem" that can be ignored? How is your experience?

 

Thanks!

Set the spin down time such that you only have 1 or 2 spin events per day. If you don't access a drive for weeks, no point in having it spun up the entire time, but don't spin down every hour just to have it spin back up again 3 hours later.

  • 4 weeks later...
On 9/2/2020 at 4:53 PM, toasti said:

Hello unRAID community,

I hear very often that a frequently spin up / spin down of a HDD is not the best and shrink the life time of it.

But that is one of the advantages of unRaid.

 

Is that still a problem of HDDs or a "problem" that can be ignored? How is your experience?

 

Thanks!

 

Can't confirm this - I've been using the Spindown for 10 1/2 (!) years and have never had a mechanical breakdown - my spindown on all drives is set to 15min.

Edited by Zonediver

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OK, that sounds amazing! 10 years is a lot! Good to know! Thank you!

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