What happens if I turn it off every night?
Israel will declare war on Iran
>>100142372>>100142333it will die faster, every shutdown maybe the last onean SSD never dies in the same way, it doesnt care how much it is turned on or offhowever HDD doesnt care how much it has writes, it it can be rewritten indefinitely but the laws of physics and probability however state that HDD will die long before reaching infinity on how much it has written
>>100142586>it will die fasterwill a machine that has been off all of its life last longer than a machine that has been on all of its life?
>>100142586>it doesnt care how much it is turned on or offbut it cares about how much was written on it. so enjoy your limited write cycles
>>100142651Bags of sand.
>>100142586how fucked is my hdd?
>>100143824this is quite bad situationpower on hours doesnt matter as much, its the shutdown/startup that does(therefore HDD power saving mode is also really stupid, it should never be used)
>>100143824>no reallocated sectorsits fine. nothing in that pic indicates it will fail soon.
>>100143893how fucked is my hdd?
HDD believers rise up!
>>100143937>flags: O-CKno problem but when it reads A-CK!then its dead
>>100142333It will last longer than retards who leave them on 24/7
>>100142333>>100142651Not an expert of hard drives, but the few things i've ever learned about maintenance says this:>every system has a life time>every system has high probability to break at birth due to stuff like being factory defective or some other issue (see pic related)>at the end of its life any machine gets exponentially more faulty (see pic related)>the more this machine is used, the more likely it is to break>the more load you add, like overclocking CPUs or make you car's engine run fast all the time, the more likely it is to break since you stress it>the more complex the system is, the more likely it is to break, simple machines will just last longerSo if you take into account all the ESL europoor shit i wrote above, assuming any part responsible for the drive to startup is used over and over again, then it is more likely for THAT part to die just to give the rest of your hdd parts a longer lifespan.The thing is, if the manufacturer produces hdd for the average joe turning his pc off every night they probably took this into account, if they say it lasts 5 years, then it just last 5 years... unless the drive is for server applications (where it's rarely turned off).
>>100142333>it dies
>>100142333How and why are they more expensive than they were 5+ years ago?
>>100143987>pc doesn't turn on>says no boot device>open up the case>find out the hdd hanged itself with its sata cable
>>100142586what about the mechanical wear of the disks constantly spinning if you never turn it off?what's worse, turning it off every night or leaving it running 24/7?
>>100149454Turning it off. The initial acceleration when starting iniating the spinning is the real slow killer.
>>100149454>>100149639server HDD drives are usually kept spinning all the time
>>100144270>thisAndMachines with moving parts are designed to be used. A whole different set of problems arrise from not being used for lng periods.
is this the thread were retards pretend that keeping the drive spinning 24/7 is more harmful than turning it off/on again every now and then despite no data being available that proves this?
>>100150502yes. also linking "studies" that are enterprise drives being tortured into dust without breaks. but apparently that's the average HDD user according to /g/
>>100150502I've been waiting for someone to post data, but alas, it's just nothingburgers
>>100142333>Zoomie scared>>100142586>it will die faster, every shutdown maybe the last oneLie>>100144001this
>>100150502>>100151158>>100151552People get too caught up with drives that are otherwise defective.If you have a drive that died at 20k hours then that drive would be quite short lived being ran 24/7 as compared if only ran 8 hours a day assuming the extra starts/stops didn't accelerate the demise.This doesn't change the fact that the drive is fucked if it fails at <50k hours but for some reason people try to hedge against failure by being "gentle" as possible because if a drive fails than it must be their fault as the possibility of a defective drive just isn't a concept. It has to be you running it too long or hot.It's the same thing with autism regarding PC components, shit fails and it's assumed there has to be a root cause that is not the component just being defective and it causes people to flip about something running at 80c
>>100142719yes, I'll enjoy my 2+ petabytes of writes, thanks.
