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Putting a drive that's occasionally in use in a external enclosure or inside a daily use PC

Reddit r/DataHoarder·u/Kilohaili_Joshi·about 1 month ago
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Putting a drive that's occasionally in use in a external enclosure or inside a daily use PC Iv looked around and I see some differing info/opinions and not quite sure what is the best thing to do in my situation. I have a 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drive for mainly moving my dvd:s and blurays onto it and I don't use it that often(sometimes use it ones or twice a week but might go weeks or sometimes even few months between accessing the files on the drive or moving new ones onto it). I have it atm in my PC which on avg I turn on and off 1-2 times a day. Will the turning on and off the PC shorten the drives lifespan in a meaningful way or that its powered on all the time when the machines on despite not being used ? Would putting the drive in a external drive enclosure and only powering it on when I would use it be better for the drives longevity ? I see some saying that the drive powering on and off puts extra strain on it and avoid it but then others say its not really a problem in modern drives.…

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