Harddrive health with harddrive auto-stop in idle


  1. Coriolis
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    Harddrive health with harddrive auto-stop in idle


    I have pretty old secondary hard drive (11 years) and currently in power settings there is an option to put hard drive in sleep mode if it's been idle for X minutes. Is it a good idea to disable this setting and let the harddrive spin all the time, since as I know, frequently enabling/disabling hard drives makes more damage than never putting harddrive to sleep.
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  3. AddRAM
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    Is the drive going to sleep now ?

    You should consider buying a new drive to replace that one, then copy your data over before it dies :)
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  4. spencer1
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    AddRAM said:
    Is the drive going to sleep now ?

    You should consider buying a new drive to replace that one, then copy your data over before it dies :)
    I agree. Eleven years is beyond retirement age for a hard drive. You can buy a terabyte drive for $50 nowadays.
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