@thor @philcolbourn the thing with hard drives is that the more they're being spun, the more likely they are to fail not nesisarily how much they're being used, SSDs are only limited by writes
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bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
the power-on power-off cycling is more damaging than just spinning constantly. thats why WD green were(/are?) shitty on linux which synced the fs just after the idle mechanism of the disk kicked in, causing the disk to spin up again.
https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=5357
server disks are designed to be always-spinning. i've had refurbished server hard drives which were in use for years and continued to work for a long time.
in the end it's probably more the difference between consumer and enterprise hardware.
