Hard Drives: Always on or spin up/down as needed?
- by Terminal Frost
The specific application is a NAS that hosts media content and is frequently accessed during the day.
My NAS was probably cycling on and off around 5 times a day so I decided to not allow it to spin down. I'm thinking this will be better for the drive, but I am not sure.
I am wondering, however, if there is any concrete information out there as to what causes more detrimental wear on a hard disk: Spinning 24/7 or cycling on and off as needed?