rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, March 04, 2020 09:47:47 AM Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > Gene didn't address my problem, but made the very useful observation > > that disks spinning 24/7 don't really die. Perhaps I shouldn't worry > > about replacing them. > > I wouldn't count on that, for two reasons: > > * everything mechanical wears, and eventually wears out (well, maybe not > if > the bearings are a magnetic suspension type) (no moving parts in contact) > > * I suspect most of us don't know whether our disks are spinning 24/7 -- > some of my computers are up 24/7, but I suspect the disks "spin down" when > unused for some period of time
Some do, some don't. Drives sold as "laptop" or "green" drives are more likely to do so by themselves. There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible performance. -dsr-
